Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control receives elite recognition from PAHO/WHO
The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been designated a "collaborating center" of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and World Health Organization (WHO). As a collaborating center, the IGTC will work to support global efforts to reduce tobacco use. The IGTC is one of three tobacco control surveillance and evaluation col...PAHO Director Urges Health Protection In Hurricane Talks
.Washington, DC, December 10, 1998 - The Director of the Pan American Health.Organization, Dr. George Alleyne, called on the international community Thursday.to protect the health of the Central Americans affected by Hurricane Mitch and.sought support for a project to control and eventually eliminate cholera.. ."I met just last Sunday in El Salvador with the Health Ministers of the affected.coun...PAHO To Provide $1 Million For Cholera Programs In Central America
.Washington, December 7, 1998 - The Central American Ministers of Health have agreed to put into place emergency plans to prevent and combat cholera following Hurricane Mitch and accepted a $1 million offer from the Pan American Health Organization to support the program.. ."We have passed the emergency phase, and we are in the reconstruction phase," Dr. George Alleyne, Director of the Pan Ameri....Washington, November 10, 1998 - Pan American Health Organization experts working. with affected communities in Central America after Hurricane Mitch say the top. priorities are providing safe water and adequate sanitation, ensuring close. surveillance of communicable disease, and rebuilding health services, especially. for thousands of people located in temporary shelters.. PAHO experts say.... .Washington, September 25, 1998- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has.issued an appeal for funds to aid the health sectors of the Dominican Republic.and Haiti and to make emergency repairs to health facilities in the northeastern.Caribbean damaged by Hurricane Georges. .PAHO has mobilized its disaster preparedness and emergency relief experts to the.affected countries, and has set...