The key objective of the meeting is to review, discuss and make recommendations about PPHSN services (PacNet, LabNet, EpiNet, PICNet, PSSS and SHIP/DDM capacity development programme) to Pacific Heads of Health.
Postgraduate Certificate in Field Epidemiology training - EPI 822: Public Health Surveillance
One of the five training modules of the PPHSN Postgraduate Certificate in Field Epidemiology programme accredited by Fiji National University – 28 participants are expected from Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tokelau and Tonga
Dr Tukuitonga will discuss the growing impact of climate change on health in the Pacific region, highlighting the interconnectedness of these two issues, and the importance of integrating health issues into climate change adaption policy.
Every year since 2017, with the financial support of the French Pacific Fund and the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),the Pacific Community (SPC) has hosted Pacific youth to take part in the “Wake Up!” project.
Have you ever seen these murals? If you are from Suva (Fiji), Nuku’alofa (Tonga), Port-Vila (Vanuatu) or Mata Utu (Wallis and Futuna), you might surely have noticed them.
The Pacific Youth have a message for you.
They want you to be concerned about the threats of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Dangerous Goods Training designed for medical laboratory personnel on 'General awareness, function specific and security awareness for shipping infectious substances (Category A & B), and other related hazardous materials'.
This course qualifies medical laboratory personnel to handle and process dangerous goods (e.g. biological samples) for carriage by air for a 24-month period.
Training provided by the Pacific Community (SPC) in accordance with the 60th Edition of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods Regulations.
A sub-regional training workshop for health surveillance and laboratory professionals aiming at strengthening influenza surveillance in the Pacific was held in Suva (Fiji) last week.Surveillance and laboratory professionals from thirteen Pacific countries, together with regional experts, reviewed existing national systems, identified challenges and discussed ways to strengthen the syndromic and virological surveillance of influenza.
Public health is everyone’s health. It involves not just the human health system but also the health of our animals and our ecosystem.
In Nadi, the regional meeting of the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN, which ended on Friday (7 June), focused on ‘One Health’, among others, to discuss measures against vector-borne diseases such as dengue, and zoonotic diseases such as leptospirosis and some types of influenza. (Zoonotic diseases are diseases that spread from animals to humans.)
Lung cancer, chronic respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease and premature death, these are the costs currently being paid by the Pacific as a result of the stubbornly high use of tobacco across the region. And the cost is not just to the tobacco users, every citizen in the Pacific suffers through the increasing cost on national health services, reduced productivity and family loss.
The goal of the Wake up! project is to get younger generations involved in efforts to control non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by providing them with an opportunity to speak out on this topic through the media and the arts.
Following the project’s initial success in 2017, the Pacific Community (SPC), in partnership with the regional United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office, decided to do it again in 2018.
