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11/Dec/2023
Washington DC, 11 December 2023 (PAHO)- The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) participated in the workshop "Capacity development in PHC: Learning Pathways for person centered models of care”, at the Regional Forum: Alliance for Primary Health Care in the Americas, which took place from December 4 to 6, 2023, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Gabriel Listovsky, Chief of the VCPH special program, presented on the topic “Learning Pathways within the framework of lifelong education” and highlighted...
06/Dec/2023
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16/Nov/2023
Join the Virtual Campus for Public Health webinar on "Framework of Competences in Public Health. Competence Evaluation and Experiences with Validation."
Date: Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Time: 11.00 am (EST).
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Register here Background The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) is the educational platform of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and a strategic tool for technical cooperation...
Time: 11.00 am (EST).
Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
Register here Background The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) is the educational platform of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and a strategic tool for technical cooperation...
09/Nov/2023
Washington, DC, November 9, 2023 (PAHO). The Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization (VCPH/PAHO) will hold the second seminar of the series "Training and exchange meetings 2023", on November 16, at 12:00 p.m. (EDT). The topic of the meeting will be “Design, use and circulation of Open Educational Resources”.
OBJECTIVES
To disseminate the work of the VCPH and its country nodes
To strengthen knowledge of the VCPH Educational Approach within the framework of...
01/Nov/2023
PAHO launches the new online course on Health Promotion and the Health Promotion Window of Knowledge, two e-learning tools to advance Health Promotion in the Region of the Americas.
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2023 – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, highlighted that “to build stronger, more equitable, and healthier communities, it is essential to strengthen and invest in health promotion”, which involves, he added, “creating...
31/Oct/2023
Washington D.C., 30 October 2023 (PAHO)- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today commemorated 20 years of operation of its Virtual Public Health Campus (VCPH), highlighting its fundamental contribution to virtual health education. Today, the Campus has over 2.5 million users.
"When we look back to the year 2003 and remember the launch of this pioneering platform, we don't just see a technological tool, but the birth of a vision," PAHO Director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa said during an event...
30/Oct/2023
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20/Oct/2023
WHAT: Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of PAHO's Virtual Campus.
TOPIC: Quality virtual education to accompany the digital transformation of health services.
DATE: 30 October
HOUR: 12 noon EDT
HOW: Register here
Introduction
Virtual education has gained a prominent place in the field of health education and the experience of the pandemic has increased the need for countries and institutions to prioritize it. Since its official launch in 2003, the Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH)...
05/Oct/2023
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26/Sep/2023
Washington D.C. September 24, 2023: The Pan American Health Organization, in coordination with the Virtual Campus for Public Health, presents the English version of the course "Introduction to the Renewed Essential Public Health Functions (EPHF)." The primary objective of this online course is to introduce the new conceptual framework of EPHF, providing key concepts of its evaluation methodology and strengthening the stewardship of health authorities.
The goal is to inspire participants to...