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Caribbean Public Health Agency
  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • About
    • Role and Function
    • Structure and People
    • Government Orientation
    • Member States
    • FAQs
  • What We Do
    • Caribbean Regulatory System
    • Communicable Diseases
    • CR-FELTP
    • Data and Health Information
    • Environmental Health
    • Emergency Response
    • Laboratory Services
    • Medicines Quality Control
    • Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Networks
    • Non-Communicable Diseases
    • Nutrition
    • Traveller's Health/THP
    • Vector Borne Diseases
  • Financial Statements
    • 2023 Audited Financial Statements
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IARC Regional Hub for Cancer Registration (Caribbean)

In the Caribbean, cancer is the second leading cause of death. Based on the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) estimates, mortality from cancer is projected to more than double by 2035 and new cases of cancer are expected to increase by more than two-thirds. The availability of reliable cancer data in the Caribbean region is limited. As of October 2023, less than 10 CARPHA Member States have cancer registries with only 1 meeting the international quality standards.

The mission of the IARC Regional Hub for Cancer Registration (Caribbean) is to improve the availability of high-quality reliable cancer data through standardised and strengthened collection and analysis. This will enable evidence-based decisions by governments and better inform national cancer control and prevention plans.

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Laboratory Testing

Medical Microbiology

Functions:

  1. Provides primary and referral services for diagnostic testing and relevant clinical information.
  2. Conducts public health-related research such as food safety, antimicrobial or antiviral resistance monitoring, and drug safety.
  3. Provides monitoring, alert and outbreak response for infectious diseases.

Medicines Quality Control and Surveillance Laboratory
(MQCSD)

Functions:

  1. Tests medicines from across the Region to monitor and verify their safety, quality and purity for compliance to pharmacopeia specifications.

Environmental Health and Sustainable Development Laboratory
(EHL)

Functions:

Provides environmental analyses:

  • Water quality monitoring
  • Plant, soil and tissue analyses
  • Food microbiological testing
  • Indoor environmental quality monitoring
  • Noise testing

CARPHA also provides laboratory network coordination and regulation through the Caribbean Public Health Laboratory Network (CariPHLN).

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Surveillance

Surveillance Systems at CARPHA

Respiratory Diseases

Clinical and laboratory epidemiological surveillance of and response to influenza, influenza-like illness (ILI), severe acute respiratory infection (SARI), and other infectious respiratory diseases.

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Travel related illnesses

Event-based surveillance systems at stay-in accommodations, through the tourism and health information system (THiS) and cruise-vessel surveillance system (CVSS).

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Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Surveillance of direct and indirect transmission of diseases from animal populations, and outbreak response.

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Laboratory Surveillance

Surveillance of clinical specimens for CARPHA Member States for communicable diseases.

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Pharmacovigilance and Post Market Surveillance

Surveillance of adverse events from pharmaceuticals and biologicals in various populations, and routine laboratory testing of selected pharmaceuticals.

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Vector-borne diseases

Surveillance of and response to malaria and arboviral outbreaks and emerging health security threats.

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Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases

Clinical, laboratory, and environmental surveillance of foodborne and waterborne diseases, and training in food safety standards.

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Environmental Health

Laboratory, clinical and epidemiological surveillance of and response to current and emerging threats to human health from our various environments.
This includes air quality, water testing, toxicological threats, and WASH in disaster settings.

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Non-Communicable Diseases and Cancer

Surveillance of cancers through the Caribbean Cancer Registry and surveillance, of NCDs such as diabetes and hypertension.
This department also addresses policy development and treatment guidelines for NCDs.

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Food and Nutrition

Advocacy for improved diets and access to nutritious, safe foods across the life course. Support to policy development in food and nutrition guidelines and legislation, in the Caribbean.

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Morbidity and Mortality

Use of information systems for the surveillance of morbidity and mortality in the Caribbean.

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Communicable Diseases and AMR

The use of routine surveillance and early warning systems for the detection of endemic, and emerging threats to the Caribbean’s health security.

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Tourism and Health Information System (THiS)

THiS is a real-time web-based application for facilities housing stay over arrivals (eg. Hotels) to monitor the health of guests and staff. This provides data for public health officials to identify events before the outbreak begins. Key features include self-reporting and an easy-to-use online tool.

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CARPHA HEAD OFFICE

  • 16-18 Jamaica Blvd,
    Federation Park,
    Port of Spain,
    Trinidad & Tobago
  • (+868) 299-0820
    (+868) 299-0895
    (+868) 622-4261
  • postmaster@carpha.org

CARPHA JAMAICA

  • Hope Gardens,
    Kingston 6,
    Jamaica
  • (+876) 977-3540
    (+876) 702-4235

CARPHA ST. LUCIA

  • P.O. Box 1111,
    The Morne, Castries,
    Saint Lucia
  • (+758) 452-2501
    (+758) 452-1087
  • (+758) 453-2721

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