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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.
UFHI (Uniting for Health Innovation), formerly the PAHO Foundation, is a non-government organization whose purpose is to respond to existing and emerging health threats in the Americas. [ 1 ] UFHI was established by the Pan American Health Organization on September 5, 1968 under the name Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF).
Through the annual Malaria Champion of the Americas competition, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Foundation, the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (MISPH), and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs (JHU-CCP) (the PAHO Foundation was a previous sponsor of this Forum) seek to ...
Brazil, Argentina, and Chile were engaged in a hospital accreditation program in the 1990s in collaboration with PAHO. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) [ 3 ]
Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr. is a public health expert from Brazil who is currently serving as the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO); his five-year term in this position starting on 1 February 2023.
Etienne was the Assistant Director of PAHO from 2003 to 2008. [6] She served as the Assistant Director-General of Health Systems and Services at the World Health Organization in 2008–12. [7] [8] She was elected PAHO director in September 2012 and took up the position, which has a five-year term, in February 2013. [8]
PAHO Foundation: Leadership that has improved people's health and lives in the Americas. [21] Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism: Albert Schweitzer Fellowship: Exemplary contributions to humanity and the environment. [22] Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award: Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation: Excellence of character and service to ...
At PAHO, among several duties, he oversaw departments of Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief; and Knowledge Management and Communication. Prior to that, he was the lead technical advisor for PAHO's immunization program, providing oversight and guidance for PAHO's technical cooperation to member countries.