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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in charge of international health cooperation in the Americas.It fosters technical cooperation among member countries to fight communicable and noncommunicable diseases, strengthen health systems, and respond to emergencies and disasters.
He played a key role in partnerships between the International Diabetes Federation and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), in responding to the emerging pandemic of type 2 diabetes, by applying the St. Vincent Declaration intervention model to the Americas, in the form of the Declaration of the Americas on Diabetes or DOTA (1996).
In February 1995, he became Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO). He served two four-year terms in this position until the end of January 2003 [ 5 ] and was elected director emeritus.
Carissa Faustina Etienne (2 November 1952 – 1 December 2023) was a Dominican public health expert. She served as the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO) (2018–2023).
The following year she was appointed to the advisory board of the Trinidad Virus Laboratory and became an advisor to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)'s Committee on Dengue in the Americas. [5] In 1977, a dengue epidemic swept through Jamaica, soon spreading throughout the Caribbean and to the American mainland. [7]
For Garvey, the organization’s rapid expansion was the triumph of a long vision of concern over the state of the pan-African world. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born in Jamaica in 1887, then still ...
West returned to Jamaica, and was appointed as a lecturer in 1968. In 1969 he was awarded a World Health Organization fellowship to study cancer chemotherapy at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In 1970 he joined Ottawa University. In 1977 he was awarded the Pan American Health Organization fellowship in
The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information or BIREME was founded in São Paulo in 1967 as the Biblioteca Regional de Medicina, [1] [2] a specialized center of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) / World Health Organization (WHO). [3]