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17Dec

CARPHA Strengthens Regional Vector-Borne Disease Early Warning Systems Through Integrated Vector Management and New Technologies

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 17, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has concluded a three-day Regional Multisectoral Workshop on Strengthening Integrated Vector Management (IVM), Insecticide Resistance Testing (IRT) and Geographic Information System (GIS). This w...

16Dec

CARPHA Boosts Capacity in The Bahamas to Advance Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention and Response and Healthier Safer Tourism

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Nassau, Bahamas. December 16, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)’s Regional Tourism and Health Program (THP) has strengthened national capacity for pandemic preparedness, prevention and response (PPR) and healthier, safer tourism (HST) in The Bahamas, one of the Caribbean&r...

03Dec

CARPHA Strengthens Regional Alert Surveillance Systems for Vector-Borne Diseases Through Data Analysis Capacity Building Workshop

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. December 2, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has successfully concluded a two-day regional workshop in Trinidad and Tobago “Strengthening Vector Borne Disease (VBD) Surveillance through Data Quality, Nowcasting and Risk Matrix App...

26Nov

CARPHA Advances One Health and Regional Health Security through Second Integrated Foodborne Diseases and Zoonoses Workshop

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Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. November 26, 2025. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) successfully hosted its second One Health Multidisciplinary Workshop to Promote Integrated Surveillance for Foodborne Diseases and Zoonoses on November 24–25, 2025, at the HYATT Re...

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CARPHA and PAHO Launch Regional Technical Recommendations for Healthier School Food Environments Across the Region

6/16/2026 10:05:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 4, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), officially launched the Technical Recomm...
CARPHA Convenes Landmark Meeting to Advance Regional Health Security Through Launch of Innovative Caribbean-Tailored Digital Early Warning Surveillance and Response Mechanisms

6/12/2026 11:04:00 AM

Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. June 12, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) successfully concluded the 2nd Joint Regional Health Security (RHS) and Regional Coordinating Mechanism f...
CARPHA Launches the Grenada Tourism and Health Program, Advances Visitor-Based Surveillance and Builds Capacity in Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control

6/5/2026 5:45:00 PM

St. George’s, Grenada. June 1, 2026. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Tourism, Creative Economy and Culture, in collaboration with the Caribbean P...
CARPHA Strengthens Regional Capacity Through IATA Infectious Substances Transport Training

6/5/2026 2:51:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. June 5th, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has successfully conducted a regional International Air Transport Association (IATA) Infectious Substanc...
CARPHA Strengthens Caribbean Capacity for Vector-Borne Disease Surveillance and Response

5/26/2026 11:25:00 AM

Georgetown, Guyana. May 26, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has further strengthened the Caribbean’s capacity to detect, monitor, and respond to vector-borne diseases through t...
CARPHA Closely Monitors Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Through Early Warning and Surveillance Mechanisms

5/21/2026 12:31:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 19, 2026. Following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declaration on May 16th 2026 that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Repub...
CARPHA Urges Action on Excessive Salt Intake as Hypertension and Heart Disease Rise Across the Region

5/15/2026 3:18:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 11, 2026. Between 21% and 27% of Caribbean adults are hypertensive, with many populations consuming nearly double the World Health Organization’s (WHO) re...
CARPHA Launches Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week 2026: Calls for Region-Wide Action on Source Reduction

5/15/2026 11:47:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. May 11, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), is leading the regional observance of Caribbean Mosquito Awareness Week (CMAW) 2026 from May 11 to 15 und...
CARPHA’s Pandemic Fund Enhances PCR Rapid Testing for Priority Pathogens in 10 CARPHA Member States

5/12/2026 4:50:00 PM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. March 31, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is pleased to announce the successful installation of Molbio rapid testing platforms across ten (10) CAR...
CARPHA Strengthens Trinidad and Tobago’s Biosecurity Capacity to Safely Transport Infectious Substances

5/8/2026 8:37:00 AM

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 7, 2026. The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has strengthened Trinidad and Tobago’s biosafety and biosecurity capacity for the safe packaging and ...

CARPHA Encourages Persons to Know their Blood Pressure

5/16/2014 5:08:00 PM

Hypertension

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

7/5/2014 1:45:00 PM

Tourism

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

11/12/2013 4:17:00 PM

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

9/9/2014 5:03:00 PM

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...
CARPHA Issues its First Emergency Use Recommendation for a COVID-19 Vaccine

3/9/2021 5:27:00 PM

CARPHA Caribbean Regulatory System (CRS) issued its first certificate of recommendation for emergency use for the COVID-19 vaccine COVISHIELD™ to CARPHA Member States on 2nd March, 2021.
New CARPHA lab to help region respond to health threats

2/13/2014 11:21:00 AM

Laboratory, Biosafety

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

9/3/2015 4:50:00 AM

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

6/27/2014 11:32:00 AM

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 "Low"

11/8/2014 3:23:00 PM

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

11/12/2013 4:56:00 PM

Influenza, Virus, Vaccination

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...