Digi-he@lth project: healthy child for a promising future
Discover how the Digi-he@lth project, implemented by SPC, in conjunction with the Wallis and Futuna Catholic Education Office and with funding support provided by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Fonds…
Pacific NCD Youth Ambassadors: Getting youth involved in non-communicable diseases prevention and control
The Pacific Community (SPC) calls for application for the 2022 Pacific NCD Youth Ambassadors initiative. The initiative provides opportunities for the Pacific youth to share creative ideas, using their own language and creative thinking that could help…
24th PPHSN Coordinating Body Meeting
The key objective of the meeting is to review, discuss and make recommendations about PPHSN services to the Pacific Heads of Health. This meeting is funded through AFD.
Pacific Way Podcast S04 - E05: Safeguarding Pacific Health
From the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Pacific Community has worked with donor agencies and partners to strengthen and safeguard the health of Pacific Islanders.
Working with international agencies and local authorities, SPC, the World Health…
Tonga One Health and Vector-borne Diseases Workshop
The One Health approach relies on the interdependency of human, animal and environmental health. Zoonotic disease surveillance, management and control are better managed using a cross-sector, transdisciplinary approach. Of particular interest, the…
Delivery of 1000 Covid test kits to Samoa allows critical fisheries data work to continue
The recent surge in Covid cases in Samoa over the past two months has strained national government resources to provide Covid test kits to all personnel. The Samoa Health Department identified the Apia Fish Market and the International Wharf at Matautu…
Tonga PGCFE training on EPI 826-02:Introduction to Health Information Systems(HIS)
This is a continuation of the Postgraduate Certificate in Field Epidemiology Course for Tonga which started in 2021 funded by the European Union (EU).
ABC Radio: Coronacast Pacific - Testing still key to controlling COVID in the Pacific
Testing has been one of the critical elements in global efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. Dr Eka Buadromo is the Advisor for Laboratory Services in the Pacific, for the Pacific Community. She says now that borders are open and there is community…
World No Tobacco Day 2022 focuses on health and environment
Today is World No Tobacco Day and public health champions around the world are marking this day by focusing on the harmful impacts of the tobacco industry on the environment.
Digital Response for connecting Citizens- “Supporting the Pacific Close the Digital Divides in Response to COVID-19”
The European Union (EU) and the Pacific Community (SPC) today launched a FJD 1.6 million project, Supporting the Pacific Close the Digital Divides in Response to COVID-19 (SPC DDR-COVID-19).