As a part of the inaugural College of West Indies/Pan American Well being Group (UWI-PAHO) Postgraduate Diploma and Certificates in Well being Coverage and Well being Techniques, six postgraduate college students are present process a four-week, blended practicum on the Pan American Well being Group (PAHO) since Could 28, with the face-to-face element commencing on June 17.
The cohort started their research in August 2022 and can full the diploma in July 2024, following the PAHO practicum. This practicum, the fruits of the two-year diploma programme, pairs every pupil with a PAHO mentor. The objective is for the scholars to achieve an understanding of PAHO’s features, and its work throughout the Caribbean and the Americas. Moreover, they’d broaden their skilled community of their technical space and use the acquired data and expertise to affect well being coverage within the Caribbean, in direction of the development of common well being.
The tutorial programme in well being coverage and well being methods was launched in 2022, following an settlement between PAHO and the UWI Cave Hill to construct human useful resource capacities within the Caribbean in areas that require extremely skilled personnel. The programme is meant for officers from ministries of well being and different entities of the Subregion’s public well being sector, in addition to non-health professionals focused on public well being. The diploma programme takes place over a two-year interval and consists of six on-line programs.
PAHO and the UWI School of Medical Sciences, Cave Hill have a long-standing collaboration in areas of widespread curiosity. This collaboration was additional expanded by means of actions applied by means of the PAHO Human Assets for Well being (HRH) Technique and the Caribbean Roadmap on HRH.
