Dr. Carissa Etienne, the medical doctor and public health trailblazer whose calm demeanor and resolve helped steer Latin America and the Caribbean through the COVID-19 pandemic, has died.

PAHO Director Carissa Etienne underlined Wednesday during a press conference that the especially contagious Delta variant was already “predominant” in the American continent and hence the need ...

Dr. Carissa F. Etienne was elected Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) by the Member States of the Organization on 19 September 2012 and began her five-year term on 1 February 2013 ...

Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa Etienne Wednesday said the monkeypox scenario in the region was worrisome, albeit moderate, and that vaccines were nearly non-available worldwide.

The Director of the Pan American Health Organization Dr. Carissa Etienne (L) at a Zika summit in Montevideo, Uruguay (AAP) Source: AAP The World Health Organisation has called for a thorough ...

The director of the Pan-American Health Organization, Carissa Etienne, has warned that the situation constitutes "an active public health emergency". One epidemiologist in Brazil fears the country ...