PAHO, Pan-American Health Organisation, UNITED STATES

Name PAHO, Pan-American Health Organisation, UNITED STATES
Full Address 525 23rd Street, N.W. Washington DC 20037 United States
Phone number +1 202 9743000
Fax number +1 202 9743663
Website www.paho.org
Number of staff members N/A

Type of activities

Education and Training,Research,Consultancy / advice,Policy development,Information ,humanitarian and technical assistance, prevention and control of environmental risks

Skills

public health, sanitation

Examples PAHO´s mission has evolved in the course of the years to satisfy the changing sanitation necessities of the Member Countries. Activities include -among others-: assess, prevent and control environmental risks for the public health, with special attention to the most vulnerable populations; understand the way in which social and economical policies as well as others influence people's health; strengthen capacity to analyse the sanitary situation and its tendencies; involve high-level political authorities in health issues by means of meetings, summits or other similar mechanisms; prepare health systems to control natural or intended infection outbreaks. Apart from the regional offices in America, there are 9 Scientific and Technical Centres. In the rest of the world, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are Member Countries.