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CARPHA Strengthens Medicine and Vaccine Oversight Across the Caribbean Through Regulatory Support System

CARPHA Strengthens Medicine and Vaccine Oversight Across the Caribbean Through Regulatory Support System

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 17 June 2025.  The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) continues to play a vital role in strengthening public health protection across CARICOM Member States through its Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS).  This system supports countries by streamlining the registration and import approval process for medicines and vaccines, and by monitoring the quality and safety of medical products.Since launching in 2017, the CRS has recommended 353 medica...
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Celebrating Caribbean Excellence in Health Research and Action: CARPHA Concludes Milestone Week of Public Health Activities in Barbados

Celebrating Caribbean Excellence in Health Research and Action: CARPHA Concludes Milestone Week of Public Health Activities in Barbados

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 09 June, 2025 – From May 5th to 9th, 2025, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) led a landmark week of back-to-back public health engagements in Barbados, culminating in the celebratory Award Ceremony at its 69th annual CARPHA Health Research Conference (CHRC). Held under the theme “Mental Health: The Hidden Pandemic”, the three-day Health Research Conference, co-hosted by the Barbados ...
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CARPHA Uses Science-based Tools to Reduce the Impact of Foodborne Diseases in Caribbean Communities

CARPHA Uses Science-based Tools to Reduce the Impact of Foodborne Diseases in Caribbean Communities

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 05 June 2025.  Foodborne diseases (FBDs) continue to pose a significant threat to the health and well-being of Caribbean residents and visitors, impacting approximately 1 in 49 people annually.  Studies show that this risk escalates during large events or mass gatherings, where 1 in 11 people suffer from illnesses caused by contaminated food.  With an estimated 142,000 cases of foodborne illness in the Region annually, about 43% affect children ...
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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

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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 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 ...
  • 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...

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...

  • 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...
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