The Caribbean Pub­lic Health Agency (CARPHA) has trained 18 peo­ple from 15 Mem­ber States to safe­ly trans­port in­fec­tious sub­stances and di­ag­nos­tic spec­i­mens across the re­gion.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion (IA­TA) In­fec­tious Sub­stances Trans­port Train-the-Train­er Work­shop was held from May 25 to 29 at the Kapok Ho­tel in Port of Spain. Con­duct­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with IA­TA and sup­port­ed through CARPHA's Pan­dem­ic Fund Project, the ini­tia­tive aimed to strength­en re­gion­al pan­dem­ic pre­pared­ness, lab­o­ra­to­ry sys­tems and work­force de­vel­op­ment.

Par­tic­i­pants came from An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, Ba­hamas, Bar­ba­dos, Be­lize, Bermu­da, the British Vir­gin Is­lands, Cay­man Is­lands, Do­mini­ca, Grena­da, Guyana, Ja­maica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lu­cia, Trinidad and To­ba­go, and Turks and Caicos.