Public Health | SPC Public Health Division

Training for shipping infectious substances

Dangerous Goods Training designed for medical laboratory personnel on 'General awareness, function specific and security awareness for shipping infectious substances (Category A & B), and other related hazardous materials'.

This course qualifies medical laboratory personnel to handle and process dangerous goods (e.g. biological samples) for carriage by air for a 24-month period.

Training provided by the Pacific Community (SPC) in accordance with the 60th Edition of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Dangerous Goods Regulations.

Pacific Heath Governance Research Network: Workshop 2

The Pacific Health Governance Research Network (PHGRN) is proud to announce its second Workshop.

Seventh Pacific Heads of Health Meeting

Seventh Pacific Heads of Health (PHoH) Meeting: 03 to 05 April 2019, Nadi, Fiji

Meeting objective:

To review, discuss and make recommendations to the Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
(PHMM) on:

#EnsembleContreLesMNT

Formation à destination des pays et territoires francophones pour la gestion de projets de promotion de la santé en lien avec la prévention des maladies non transmissibles.

August 14 2018

A sub-regional training workshop for health surveillance and laboratory professionals aiming at strengthening influenza surveillance in the Pacific was held in Suva (Fiji) last week.Surveillance and laboratory professionals from thirteen Pacific countries, together with regional experts, reviewed existing national systems, identified challenges and discussed ways to strengthen the syndromic and virological surveillance of influenza.

June 14 2018

Laboratory-based surveillance is important for national and global health security, but in many PICTs, the bulk of laboratory resources are earmarked for clinical laboratory services, not surveillance. Quality management, systems and processes are also inadequate to support effective laboratory surveillance.

October 16 2017

This week fifteen health workers from Tuvalu began the first of five modules for the Postgraduate Certificate in Field Epidemiology (PGCFE), a capacity development programme delivered by the Pacific Community (SPC) together with partners from the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN), including the World Health Organization and Hunter New England Local Health District in Australia.

March 7 2018

The Pacific Community (SPC) and Agence française de développement (AFD) join forces in strengthening public health surveillance and response capacities to tackle epidemics, emerging transmissible diseases, antimicrobial resistance and climatic disaster impacts in the Pacific.

April 7 2019

^{7th Pacific Heads of Health Group Photo}

At the 7th Pacific Heads of Health (PHoH) meeting, leaders declared that primary care and access to universal health care must be priorities for improving the health of the region’s population.

November 16 2017