| Ética de la salud pública |
This course aims to strengthen participants’ capacity to identify, analyze, and address ethical issues in public health practice, including decision-making and health policy formulation, surveillance activities, and emergency situations.
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Transformación digital en salud: conceptos y herramientas esenciales para el personal de salud |
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of digital transformation in health and its impact on care models. It promotes the development of essential digital competencies for the health workforce in safe, interoperable, and people-centered environments. The course is grounded in scientific evidence and in international and regional frameworks on digital health.
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Combined HIV Prevention with Emphasis on Oral and Long-Acting PrEP |
The purpose of this course is to strengthen the technical capacity of personnel involved in HIV prevention programs, facilitating the implementation of PrEP services within the framework of combined prevention, with a focus on quality, safety, monitoring, and programmatic impact.
Available in English and Spanish
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| Introducción a la resistencia a los antimicrobianos bajo el enfoque de Una Sola Salud |
The Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health developed this virtual course to increase awareness, knowledge, and understanding of antimicrobials and of actions to prevent and mitigate antimicrobial resistance under a One Health approach. Available in Spanish
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| Resistencia a los antimicrobianos: vigilancia, análisis y toma de decisiones desde el enfoque Una Sola Salud |
This course addresses the microbiological, molecular, and analytical foundations of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It strengthens capacities for integrated surveillance and supports decision-making on policies and interventions to mitigate AMR under a One Health approach across the human, animal, environmental, and food sectors.
Available in Spanish
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Trabajadores de salud comunitarios para la Mejor Atención de las ENT |
This course is designed for community health workers to expand equitable access to integrated, quality services. It strengthens their capacities to provide comprehensive care for people with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), addressing risks and social determinants from a primary health care approach and in dialogue with their communities. Available in Spanish
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Preventing Self-harm/suicide: Empowering Primary Health Care providers |
Suicide is a serious global public health problem, with more than 700,000 deaths each year. This course aims to strengthen first-level care capacities in understanding social determinants, stigma, and myths, as well as in the detection, management, and timely referral of suicidal risk and self-harm, to support prevention in primary health care.
Available in English
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NEW LANGUAGES OF PREVIOUSLY LAUNCHED COURSES |
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Integrando la simulación y la tecnología en la educación en enfermería y partería |
This self-paced course is structured into seven modules and aims to equip participants with essential knowledge and skills to use simulation and technology to improve nursing and midwifery education.
New language: Spanish
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Desenvolvimento de competências para a atenção à saúde das pessoas idosas: ACAPEM ‒ Nível intermediário |
Participants in this course will learn to provide integrated, person-centered care for older adults based on optimizing intrinsic capacity and functional ability, with a focus on primary health care that incorporates integrated health service delivery networks and intersectoral action.
New language: Portuguese
Also available in English and Spanish
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| Malaria microscopy self-learning course |
This course is designed for microscopists and laboratory personnel in the Region of the Americas to refresh basic knowledge on malaria and its diagnosis through microscopy. It includes the processes for the proper preparation, staining, and microscopic examination of thick blood films and thin blood smears stained with Giemsa.
New language: English
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| Virtual course on the introduction to primary health care in the 21st century: principles and implementation
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This initiative proposes a common conceptual foundation for all those developing proposals based on primary health care (PHC). These proposals may include the development of health systems and public and health policies based on PHC; models of care and the organization of health services; strategies for disease surveillance, control, and elimination; training and development of human resources; policies for social participation and intersectoral action, among others, all grounded in PHC.
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Virtual Campus Learning Pathways |
Learning Pathways are educational journeys designed to strengthen competencies in key public health areas. Through an organized sequence of courses, workshops, seminars, and communities of practice, they support the development of professional profiles aligned with technical cooperation priorities and international health policies.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) profoundly reshaping the way health systems prevent, diagnose, monitor, and care for people. When used responsibly and ethically, it can be a key tool to reduce access gaps, optimize resources, and improve health outcomes. However, its implementation also presents challenges related to equity, privacy, transparency, and data quality.
In this new paradigm, health workers need to develop a critical understanding of the potential and limitations of AI in the health sector. This second cycle is part of PAHO’s digital health training pathway and aims to provide information to support the application of AI tools in public health.
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This series aims to strengthen the capacities of health personnel and technical and management teams to plan and implement telehealth services in an efficient, safe, and equitable manner, within the framework of digital health transformation strategies in the Region of the Americas. The sessions will address key telehealth concepts, experiences and models of technical cooperation in the Region, the role of academic and telemedicine networks, as well as recommendations for their implementation with criteria for quality, data protection, and equity in access.
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New office of the Virtual Campus for Public Health in Panama to strengthen the training of the health workforce in the Americas |
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The Virtual Campus for Public Health (VCPH) of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) inaugurated a new office in Panama, a space to continue strengthening regional capacities for training and technical cooperation for the health workforce.
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Virtual education as an opportunity to strengthen the digital transformation of health systems |
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As part of the plenary session “Digital transformation and PHC: opportunities and the way forward,” held within the framework of the Second Regional Forum of the Alliance for Primary Health Care in the Americas, Gabriel Listovsky, Head of the Special Program Virtual Campus for Public Health of the Pan American Health Organization, shared reflections on the challenges and opportunities of virtual education in advancing digital transformation.
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The PAHO Virtual Campus course on Health Promotion surpasses 116,000 enrollments |
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Since its launch in October 2023, the virtual course Health Promotion: A Comprehensive Approach to Promoting Health and Well-being in the 21st Century has received more than 116,000 enrollments. Although the vast majority of participants come from the Region of the Americas (around 110,000), registrations have been received from 143 countries across the five continents. In terms of the number of participants by country, Ecuador (39,110), Mexico (24,867), Colombia (13,457), and Argentina (9,128) stand out, although participants come from 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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From training to impact: José Domingo May Tut’s experience in family and community health |
Through his testimony, José Domingo May Tut, territorial technical assistant in San Juan Chamelco, Alta Verapaz, shares how the Family and Community Health course offered through the PAHO Virtual Campus for Public Health strengthened his knowledge and enhanced his work in local health services. The training was delivered under the Primary Health Care and Nutrition Project, funded by the European Union and implemented by PAHO/WHO Guatemala, reaffirming the commitment to building health workforce capacities and improving the quality of care for communities.
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