Training of Latin American Health-Care Workers Through the Gorgas Memorial Institute, Republic of Panama

Thu, Jul 3 2008 11:00:00 GMT

This project will support the Gorgas Memorial Institute (GMI) to: (a) Develop a regional training center in Panama and (b) train community health workers, clinicians (physicians, nurses, and auxiliary medical workers) and select publichealth professionals from Central and South America (i.e., Latin America), (c) facilitate partnerships between U.S. universities and their Latin American counterparts to develop human resources for health in Latin America, and (d) harness the energies of U.S. and other nongovernmental organizations by partnering with them to advance community healthtraining and program efforts in Latin America.

These efforts will help engage significantly more areas of these countries to prepare for and respond to publichealth emergencies, such as pandemic influenza, and they will contribute to the improved and expanded provision of prevention and primary health care. This training of nurses, community health workers and physicians will focus on improving and expanding coverag

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Training of Latin American Health-Care Workers Through the Gorgas Memorial Institute, Republic of Panama