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Issue No. 11 - June 2023
The Pan American Health Organization held a webinar on 10 March 2023 for the launch of the Special Issue devoted to PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centres (CCs), “Celebrating the Achievement of Our Common Goals”, published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health.
The articles in this Special Issue illustrate how CCs respond to public health needs in the Region and globally through PAHO/WHO’s mandates. The articles present activities and research results that contribute to evidence-based health policies, share lessons learned, provide recommendations, identify best practices, and increase the visibility of CCs’ work in the Region.
We wish to thank PAHO/WHO CCs for their support to the Organization in the pursuit and achievement of its mandates and goals, and we look forward to continuing in the future.
We would like to thank the panelists and moderators who participated in the webinar and the personnel who supported the coordination of the Special Issue and webinar.
Panelist Presentations
The webinar included six panel discussions, which focused on how CCs have supported PAHO/WHO in several technical areas, and the impact these deliverables and findings could have on PAHO/WHO’s technical cooperation program.
Noncommunicable Diseases and Risk Factors
Estimating the economic impact of interpersonal violence in Mexico in 2021: projecting three hypothetical scenarios for 2030
Panelist: Dr. Arturo Cervantes Trejo
Institution: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Anahuac Mexico, Mexico
Detection of alcohol consumption at the first level of care in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic
Panelist: Dr. Guillermina Natera
Institution: Instituto Nacional de
Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, Mexico
No presentation available. Read article here.
Partnering to implement the Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer in the Americas: prioritizing systems strengthening
Panelist: Dr. Catherine Lam
Institution: Department of Global Pediatric
Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Health Systems and Human Resources
Epistemic communities and the challenges of training health technicians during the COVID-19 pandemic
Panelist: Dr. Carlos Eduardo Colpo Batistella
Institution: Escola Politécnica de Saúde Joaquim Venâncio, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brazil
Addressing the move toward universal health in the Caribbean through strengthening the health workforce
Panelist: Ms. Janet Rigby
Institution: School of Nursing, Faculty of
Health Professions, Dalhousie University, Canada
A commentary on the Pan American Network of Nursing and Midwifery Collaborating Centres
Panelist: Dr. Madeline Naegle
Institution: Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, USA
No presentation available. Read article here.
Pandemic Preparedness
COVID-19 in the Americas: the role of collaborating centers in understanding lessons and best practices in pandemic preparedness and response
Panelist: Mr. Kashish Aneja
Institution: O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, USA
Health throughout the Life Course and Occupational Health
Protecting healthcare workers during a pandemic: what can a WHO collaborating centre research partnership contribute?
Panelist: Dr. Jerry Spiegel
Institution: School of Population and Public
Health, University of British Columbia, Canada
CRCP units: a strategy to assess health risks in children in contaminated communities
Panelist: Dr. Fernando Díaz-Barriga
Institution: Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potos, Mexico
Carcinogenic drug exposure among health-sector workers: the need for exposure assessment and surveillance
Panelist: Dr. Sammy Almashat
Institution: Occupational Health Program, University of Maryland Baltimore, USA
Healthy aging and care of the older adult with chronic disease: a qualitative needs assessment in 14 eastern and southern Caribbean islands
Panelist: Dr. Nancy VanDevanter
Institution: Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, USA
Digital Health and Infodemics
Promoting telemedicine in Latin America in light of COVID-19
Panelist: Dr. Francesc Saigí-Rubió
Institution: Facultat de Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
An anti-infodemic virtual center for the Americas
Panelist: Dr. Ian Brooks
Institution: Center for Health Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Neglected Diseases
Eliminating morbidity caused by Neglected Tropical Diseases by 2030
Panelist: Dr. Theresa Gyorkos
Institution: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Canada
Lessons learned from the implementation of integrated serosurveillance of communicable diseases in the Americas
Panelist: Dr. Martha Saboya Díaz
Institution: Neglected Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, PAHO/WHO
Webinar Recordings
Webinar: Celebrating the Achievement of Our Common Goals
Read Previous Newsletters
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 2 (December 2020)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 3 (March 2021)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 4 (June 2021)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 5 (September 2021)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 6 (February 2022)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 7 (April 2022)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 8 (July 2022)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 9 (October 2022)
- PAHO/WHO CC Newsletter Issue 10 (March 2023)
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