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CARPHA Calls for Urgent Action to Beat Plastic Pollution to Secure Future Health on World Environment Day 2025

CARPHA Calls for Urgent Action to Beat Plastic Pollution to Secure Future Health on World Environment Day 2025

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 04 June 2025.   The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) joins our regional and international partners in observing World Environment Day 2025. Under the theme “Beat Plastic Pollution”, we encourage our regional community – individuals, governments and the private sector – to adopt more sustainable practices to secure the health of future generations. In the Caribbean region, mainly characterised by small developing la...
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CARPHA Urges Caribbean Youth to Envision a Future Without Tobacco Use: World No Tobacco Day

CARPHA Urges Caribbean Youth to Envision a Future Without Tobacco Use: World No Tobacco Day

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 26, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is committed to raising awareness about the dangers of smoking, especially among youth, and its negative impact on non-communicable diseases in the Caribbean. In the Caribbean, tobacco smoking is a major health issue, with 15% to 25% of adults participating in this practice, while tobacco-related illnesses account for about 10% to 12% of deaths in the Region. CARPHA’s Executive Director Dr. L...
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CARPHA Builds Emergency Response Capacity in Eleven Member States

CARPHA Builds Emergency Response Capacity in Eleven Member States

Bridgetown, Barbados – May 26, 2025, The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), with funding from the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) Programme of Support for Health Security Strengthening, successfully facilitated a Field Hospital Medical Training and Simulation Exercise in partnership with the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) from May 12–17, 2025, in Bridgetown, Barbados. A total of 18 participants from 11 CARPHA Member States, (British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, ...
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CARPHA Empowers Individuals on Measures to Reduce Hypertension: “Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer”

CARPHA Empowers Individuals on Measures to Reduce Hypertension: “Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer”

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 16, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is dedicated to the surveillance, prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as hypertension within the Region. As the leading cause of early death and disability globally, 21% – 27% of adults in the Caribbean are hypertensive. Left untreated, hypertension can cause other complications like heart and kidney failure. CARPHA focuses on disease prevention and health promoti...
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  • CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

    CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

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    Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 16, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is calling on persons to know their blood pressure, strive to keep it healthy or lower it. This is in keep...
  • CARPHA and CTO Launch Tourism and Health Programme

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    CARPHA and CTO successfully launched the regional tourism and health programme and conducted an awareness and discussion workshop on Friday May 2, 2014 in Aruba. The keynote address was given by the M...
  • CARPHA’s new Chairman of the Board

    CARPHA’s new Chairman of the Board

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    Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, October 02, 2013: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the appointment of the Honourable Colin Riley, Minister of Health of Montserrat...
  • Saint Lucia Joins Regional Project to Build Public Health Capacity

    Saint Lucia Joins Regional Project to Build Public Health Capacity

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    Castries, Saint Lucia, September 04, 2014. The Ministry of Health, Wellness, Human Services and Gender Relations, in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), is launching the Ca...
  • New CARPHA lab to help region respond to health threats

    New CARPHA lab to help region respond to health threats

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    The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) moved today one step forward in its mission to provide strategic direction in analyzing, defining and responding to public health priorities of CARICOM, in ...
  • GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

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    The Center for Global Health of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), St. George's Un...
  • CR-FELTP Trains New Mentors in Jamaica

    CR-FELTP Trains New Mentors in Jamaica

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    Caribbean Regional Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (CR-FELTP) Trains New Mentors in Jamaica The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) hosted a four-day workshop in Kingston, Jam...
  • Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean

    Risk of Ebola in the Caribbean "Low"

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    Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, August 06, 2014: The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) says the risk of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) being imported to the Caribbean is low. Executive Direct...
  • Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats

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    Risk Communication Training to Help Senior Health Officials Better Manage Health Threats Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, June 19, 2016: "Risk communication is an important tool in managing health th...
  • Influenza Activity in the Caribbean

    Influenza Activity in the Caribbean

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    Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, September 26, 2013. The Caribbean, like other regions in the Americas, experiences seasonal influenza activity. Improved health monitoring by Ministries of Health i...