Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH/PAHO)

Washington, D.C., July 25, 2018 (PAHO/Yale/GW) – A new course developed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, and the Yale School of Public Health, with financing from the Government of Canada, aims to improve nutrition programs in Latin America and the Caribbean and prevent malnutrition in all its forms.

The course, “Evaluation and Quality Assurance of Nutrition Programs”, a mixed online/on-site course, began this month on the PAHO Virtual Campus for Public Health.

A total of 35 professionals from the Ministries of Health of Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru were selected to take part in this initial four-month training, which includes a one-week on-site workshop in Ecuador in December 2018.

July 2, 2018

PAHO Executive Committee approves the proposal Plan of Action on Human Resources for Universal Health
The Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) approved the proposal Plan of Action on Human Resources for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage 2018-2023. Read more

The OER is a technical cooperation initiative of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), conducted by the Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCHP) and BIREME.

Its purpose is to create a NETWORK of Open Educational Resources (OER) that may allow the production, publication, search, and utilization of learning objects for utilization throughout the Americas Region.

June 1, 2018

April 30, 2018

Interprofessional Education: from policies to practice in the region of the America

March 21, 2018
2:00 to 3:00 PM (EST)

Objectives: 

• To contextualize governance models, shared resources, health and education policies and supportive management practices to determine the actions they might take to support interprofessional education practices.
• To present practices experiences to implementing principles of the interprofessional education in the health and education policies and the benefits for health systems.

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March 5, 2018

January 31, 2018

Dr. Carissa Etienne elected for a second term as WHO Regional Director for the Americas

a. Introduction
b. Featured International Health Projects – LIHP Cohorts 2015 and 2016
c. Edmundo Granda Ugalde Leaders in International Health Program 2017
d. Applying the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to National and Subregional Contexts
e. Publication of the Outcome Evaluation of the LIHP 2008 – 2012
f. The Experiences of Health Leaders in Paraguay
g. Past Events
h. Upcoming Events
i. Call for papers

The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (GS/OAS), through the OAS Partnerships Program for Education and Training (PAEC) of Department of Human Development, Education and Employment (DHDEE), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and Galilee International Management Institute – Israel (GIMI) are offering scholarships to qualified candidates of the Americas to participate in its certificate courses: Health Systems Management in English, French and Spanish, and Community Management of HIV/AIDS in French.

Panama City, July 17, 2017 (PAHO/WHO) — The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health, the University of the West Indies – St Augustine Campus and the University of Trinidad and Tobago, announces the launch of the VCPH Caribbean Node which offers English-speaking courses that will benefit health practitioners in the Caribbean region.

We announce the opening of the call for applications for the "Healthcare Technology Planning & Management (2017)" Virtual Course. The course will run from 28 August to 3 December 2017.

Applicants must be professionals (engineers, medical doctors, managers and other related specialties) that have or are interested in developing duties related to biomedical technologies within the health system or at health institutions. Participants should also have  experience in management or administration with responsibility for some aspect of healthcare technology.

The deadline for Applicant Registration is 21 July 2017. **(new dates)

On April 7, 2017, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) celebrates the World Health Day, and this year’s campaign is about “Depression: let’s talk”. Depression is a common mental disorder that affects people of all ages, from all walks of life, in all countries. Support available for people with mental health disorders is limited in many countries of the world. In the Americas, the depression treatment gap can reach as high as 65%; six out of ten people with depression don’t get the treatment they need.  

The Regional Coordination of the VCPH is participating in the "Subregional Workshop on Teacher Training for the Residency Systems of Central America and the Dominican Republic". The workshop is being held from March 1 to March 3 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

In the workshop, an adaptation to the VCPH subregional classroom of the "Teacher Training Course for the Residency System, Strategies and Pedagogical Tools" is being developed.

In recent years, the Virtual Campus of Public Health has grown substantially in the number of users and amount of courses offered. It has expanded from 40,000 participants in February 2014 to 250,000 participants in September 2016.

The course is an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO / WHO), through the Regional Task Force on Water and Sanitation (ETRAS), with the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation development (AECID); It aims to provide theoretical and practical tools to companies that supply the drinking water for people, as well as medical personnel performing activities management, operation, monitoring and system monitoring water supply in the countries of the Americas in line with those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) principles.

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The opening ceremony for the Edmundo Granda Ugalde Leaders in International Health Program (LIHP) 2016 will take place virtually on 18 May 2016 at 10:00am EST. The activity, directed from PAHO headquarters in Washington, D.C., will join PAHO/WHO staff from headquarters and country offices, current and former LIHP participants, and other partners and colleagues from ministries of health, cooperation agencies and other entities to commemorate the commencement of the LIHP 2016.

The Minister of Education, Sciences and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Maja Makovec Brencic, today opened a meeting at UNESCO Headquarters of more than 50 leading experts and national delegates to develop strategies for and address challenges to Open Educational Resources (OER) in support of the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

The VCPH was present at the XI International Congress of Health Informatics, developed in Cuba between 15 and 18 March 2016.
 
At the congress the achievements and challenges VCPH in the framework of the strategy of working with open and interoperable resources were presented.
 
The conference also provided an opportunity for the workshop "The Virtual Campus of Public Health - Repository and Open Educational Resources" which was aimed, check the busy experience in recent years, analyzing their achievements and difficulties and make progress in defining the VCPH future strategy in OER Network.
 
The workshop was attended regional and national consultants and representatives of PAHO nodes country with more experience in the field such as Brazil and Cuba.
 

The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is urging health system policy makers, scholars and researchers in its member countries to submit abstracts related to “resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world”, this year’s theme for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, which will be held on 14-18 November 2016 in Vancouver, Canada.

Abstracts accepted for 4^th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research

During the 17 and 18 November 2015 an expert workshop whose purpose was focused on discussing the "Challenges and Opportunities VCPH under the Strategy for the Universal Health Access and Universal Health Coverage" we were held.

The Virtual Campus for Public Health invites you to visit the website of the International Open Access Week to be held to share experiences in this area and help broader participation.

The International Open Access Week is held for the sixth year around the world and is an ideal place to disseminate, promote and raise awareness among the academic and research community the benefits and advances in management of open access forum.

International Open Access Week

The program Mais Medicos (More doctors) in which collaborate Brazil, Cuba and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a good example of South-South cooperation, which could be applied to other member states have challenges to meet their needs health due to lack of doctors.