Regional News

Starts the 6th version of the Capacity Building Course for Renewal of Primary Health Care which covers the period from 26 July to 13 December 2013, with a duration of 200 hours for the purpose of promoting the development of the renewal of Primary Care in the Region of the Americas for the transformation to a health system based on PHC, through the strengthening of the capacities of leaders, managers and health professionals.

The call will be open until July 21, 2013.

The June 11, 2013, at 81, passed away Dr. Carlos Bloch, Rosario unionist prominent physician and sanitarian recognized internationally. He studied medicine at Rosario, was a student activist and became a doctor in 1957. He joined the Board of the School of Medicine until 1966 coup. In parallel also involved in union medical organizations as the Medical Federation of the province of Santa Fe and Rosario Medical Association. Since this space is among the organizers in 1965 Argentinean Social Seventh Medical Conference held in Rosario.

The 2013 Opening Ceremony for the Edmundo Granda Ugalde Leaders in international Health Program (LIHP) took place virtually on 3 June 2013, with approximately 100 people participating from over 20 different countries. The bilingual event included a keynote presentation by Dr. José Romero Teruel, Assistant Director a.i. of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, who highlighted the contributions of the Program in the development of professionals who are able to confront health and development challenges in an increasingly globalized world.

PAHO invites you to participate in the Regional Dialogue on Medical Residency which will be held from 7 to June 14, 2013. The inaugural meeting is June 7 at 10:00 am (Washington, DC). In this dialogue will highlight particular aspects of policy and planning medical residencies, whose themes are related primarily to the scarcity of certain specialties, the lack of specialists in rural and marginal urban areas, weak mechanisms and policy planning promote training and employment specialties worth deficit, the migration of doctors and funding for medical residencies.

The University of Panama, with the support of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) in Panama and the Latin American Center of Information in Health Sciences (NLM / PAHO / WHO) held from 20 to 24 May this year the "Workshop on Introduction to Virtual Health Library (VHL) ".

The workshop aimed at participants achieve capacity building for implementation of the networking model of VHL, as well as in the promotion of open access to information and the management and operation of information sources VHL, as a strategy to support the development of VHL in Panama and other countries of the Network

On May 2 the 4th started Virtual Course HSPA version in which a group of American colleagues comienzanuna training experience Essential Functions of Public Health through the potential and possibilities of the virtual learning environment offered by the Campus virtual Public Health.

This virtual learning program aims to give participants a space of knowledge, reflection and development of operational capabilities to promote the development of the Essential Public Health Functions-HSPA-in each of the countries of the region.

On 16 May at PAHO Headquarters in Washington DC. was called professionals consultants and technical areas and units, to a presentation by Dr. Jose Baudilio Jardines, on the progress of the Virtual Campus of Public Health (VCPH).

On May 6 last began the first edition in English for the Caribbean Virtual Course Specialization in Health Management for Older Persons Virtual Course, which in turn is the eighth version of the Specialty since 2009.

During the III Regional Network Workshop Open Educational Resources (OER) VCPH/VHL from 3 to August 5, 2012 in São Paulo, Brazil, was established as one of the main recommendations form three working groups on different development issues and operation of repositories country nodes.

Creative Commons licenses have expanded to become one of the best ways to disseminate content in an open, allowing third parties to reuse and dissemination.

This idea may seem simple, becomes very complicated when this opening is intended to coexist with the laws of each country and the interests of the groups affected by the production.

In this article we bring you a series of practical resources related to Creative Commons licenses.

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A short explanation about the Creative Commons licence, we will be providing more information...

Creative Commons was created as project thanks to the initiative of a law professor at Stanford University who studies social and cultural phenomena of Cyberspace Lawrence Lessig, being a non-profit organization's main objective is to offer licenses to facilitate the distribution model and use of content.

Concludes at San Jose, Costa Rica the Training Workshop in the new environment of Moodle 2.3 for Tutors and Coordinators of  the Virtual Campus of Public Health with the participation of countries and VCPH regional team.

On 2 March 2013, Blackboard Collaborate will be renumbering the IP addresses of the North American hosted web conferencing services in order to improve its reliability.

During this maintenance, Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing and Elluminate Live! sessions and recordings will be unavailable.

Maintenance will take place during a six-hour period inside the regular maintenance window as follows:

Begin time: Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 10:00 PM US Eastern (GMT-5)
End time: Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 4:00 AM US Eastern (GMT-5)

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The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) has opened the call for applications for the Edmundo Granda Ugalde Leaders in International Health Program (LIHP) 2013. In recognition of the multiple and evolving challenges facing leaders today, the LIHP aims to strengthen the capacity of countries to more effectively analyze, define, advocate and project their national health interests within this complex global context. The program is open to professionals in the Americas working in public health, international relations or related fields. The deadline for the receipt of applications is 15 March 2013.

From 5 to 7 March 2013 will be held in San Jose, Costa Rica, the Training Workshop Virtual Campus of Public Health, which aims to prepare the campus coordinators and tutors as facilitators of the training process in the new VCPH tools and develop skills in handling the new Moodle Virtual Classroom 2.3.4 as well as the online system for the submission and selection of courses VCPH.

The Virtual Campus of Public Health in its commitment to improve the quality of their services are migrating very important in e-learning platform Moodle from version 1.x to version 2.x

Made from 3 to 5 December in San Jose, Costa Rica the "Workshop on wage policies: its role as a tool for improvement in the provision of health services" as part of the efforts in the Region of the Americas to advance desprecarización processes and ensure proper working conditions for health workers. It is considered very important initiatives to ensure job security and pay the right conditions.

Painfully met the death, on November 22, Dr. Jorge Leguiza, teacher and Design Course Set Management Health Benefits VCPH.

In Lima, Peru, public health experts meet to analyze trends and identify the challenges of public health education and production priorities of learning resources. The Pan American Health Organization is organizing this meeting through Project Human Resource for Health and PAHO Office in Peru. The meeting was held from 19 to 21 November 2012 at the premises of a downtown hotel in the city.

From 22 to 24 October, Regional Workshop was held for the development of Educational Virtual Clinic (CVD) Virtual Campus of Public Health, under the Ninth Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information Health-CRICS9 at headquarters Pan American Health organization in Washington DC

Chaired by Dr. Charles Godue Team Leader Human Resources PAHO and Dr. Jose B. Jardines Coordinator Virtual Campus of Public Health, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, United States, Panama and Puerto Rico with the objectives of:

It will be from 22 to 24 October in the ninth Congress Regional Information Health Sciences, organized by PAHO / WHO and BIREME in Washington, DC.