COVID-19 Webinars

This workshop is part of the PAHO-WHO COVID-19 Pillar HSS Series and will be held on March 8, 9 and 10, 2022. At the end of the workshop, the participants will be able to carry out the infection prevention measures to decrease the burden of HAI in patients admitted with COVID-19.

This workshop, organized by PAHO's Regional Program on Bioethics, included a presentation by Prof. Angus Dawson from the University of Sydney, and panelists to discuss the lessons we should learn from the pandemic and how to integrate ethics in public health work. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted health, lives and livelihoods world-wide, and has generated a social and economic crisis characterized by mass unemployment, increased levels of impoverishment, and exacerbation of longstanding inequities in health.

Human Resources in Health have gained visibility and prominence due to their importance and contributions to maintaining the health of the population, ensuring that countries achieve access to health and universal health coverage, the Sustainable Development Goals and more recently in 2020, to co

All over the world and particularly in our region, different population groups have little or no access to comprehensive and quality health services, mainly due to numerous barriers that prevent them from using needed health services.

The rapid production of evidence in the pandemic makes the ethics oversight of ongoing research increasingly difficult.

This web seminar reviews the progress on the implementation of the Regional Plan for Access to Safe Blood and discuss the impact of COVID-19 on blood supply to contribute to the implementation of best practices in blood donation and adequate management of blood supply in health services in the Ca

This seminar makes part of the webinar series organized by the Leaders for International Health Program. Its main aim was enabling a space for dicussion and reflection regarding
he COVID-19 pandemic and the emerging trends in health professions education that the crisis is shaping.

PAHO's Regional Program on Bioethics invites you to participate in a series of regional dialogues on research ethics in the pandemic.

Meeting 2 - Cycle of dialogues - Why call this cycle of dialogues? The 2020 pandemic has called into question the ways in which people work, teach, learn, meet and gather, around the world.

PAHO's Regional Program on Bioethics invites to participate in a series of regional dialogues on research ethics in the pandemic.

PAHO’s Regional Program on Bioethics held a virtual workshop on COVID-19 vaccine research ethics on Tuesday October 27th, 1:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m., Washington DC time (EDT). The workshop will have simultaneous interpretation (English and Spanish). 

The Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health of the Pan American Health Organization, in close collaboration with the Social Protection and Health Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) invited to a new webinar of the series Share-Listen-Act, COVID 19: Informati

PAHO Sub regional Program organized the webinar: HRH and the COVID-19 response in the Caribbean: Challenges and opportunities.

This virtual seminar presented the current state of the evidence on the interventions that aim at treating or preventing COVID-19, and the ethics guidance for the emergency use of unproven interventions for COVID-19, in the extraordinary circumstances in which such use may be justified.

What: NCDs and COVID-19: Building Back Better Services

This seminar was held within the framework of the online seminar series of the Leaders in International Health Program (LIHP), Edmundo Granda Ugalde.

To present issues related to the extended use, reuse, and reprocessing of N95 and equivalent respirators by health services during shortages of this personal protective equipment (PPE), to health facility managers, health authorities, and others involved in decision-making on the use and prioritization of PPE.

This Webinar provides and overview of the international recommendations for certifying and coding COVID-19 as cause of death, the main aspects for correcting filling of death certificate and selected examples of certification of deaths due to COVID-19.

The webinar features government authorities and experts from the Americas and Spain who share their experiences to strengthen the development and production of ventilators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Audience: Authorities, professionals (engineers, doctors, managers and other related specialties) who have developed or are interested in learning about low-cost ventilator projects Presenters: Government authorities of the Americas and leaders of innovative ventilators projects.

The Department of Evidence and Intelligence for Action in Health of the Pan American Health Organization, in collaboration with the Social Protection and Health Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and several partners and networks and 990 registered attendees, launched the 

This PANCAP-PAHO webinar focus on recommendations and strategies to prevent and respond to domestic violence against women and children during COVID-19.

PAHO/WHO held a webinar to present the Recommendations for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the response to COVID-19.

The Healthy Life Course Unit of the Family, Health Promotion and Life Course Department, of the Pan American Health ORganization (PAHO/WHO) organized a Webinar in commemoration of the International Day of the Family to discuss Family Wellness and resilience in the time of COVID-19 and the challen

In this presentation, Carla Saenz, Sarah Carrecedo and Ana Palmero presented two documents that were recently developed to help countries streamline the ethics review and oversight of COVID-19-related research and adapt standard operating procedures accordingly.