🏥❤️💊🧪 Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) – Haiti

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) Haiti is the Haiti country office of the Pan American Health Organization, the specialized international health agency for the Americas and the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO). Founded in 1902, PAHO describes itself as the world's oldest international public-health agency. It works with governments and partners throughout the Americas through technical cooperation, health-system strengthening, disease prevention and control, emergency preparedness and response, health information, immunization, and other public-health programs.

In Haiti, PAHO/WHO works closely with the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), healthcare institutions, humanitarian organizations, development partners, civil society, and other stakeholders. Its role is particularly important in strengthening public-health capacity, maintaining essential health services, improving disease surveillance, supporting vaccination programs, securing medical supplies, and coordinating health responses during emergencies and humanitarian crises.

PAHO's Haiti operation has a broad technical mandate rather than a commercial product portfolio. Its work encompasses health-system strengthening, universal health coverage, communicable and noncommunicable disease control, immunization, maternal and child health, epidemiological surveillance, emergency medical response, health logistics, mental health and psychosocial support, and support for vulnerable and displaced populations.

A major current strategic milestone is the 2026–2028 Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) signed by PAHO/WHO and the Government of Haiti in October 2025. It establishes a three-year framework centered on strengthening the health system and universal access to quality care, improving prevention and management of major health conditions, and strengthening preparedness and response to health emergencies through a humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach.

Among international organizations operating in Haiti, PAHO/WHO is distinguished by its specialized public-health mandate, technical relationship with the national health authorities, regional expertise across the Americas, and ability to combine health policy, technical assistance, disease surveillance, immunization, emergency response, and medical supply-chain support. Unlike organizations whose Haiti operations focus primarily on humanitarian relief or direct clinical care, PAHO's role is strongly oriented toward strengthening the national health system and public-health infrastructure while supporting emergency operations when national capacity is overwhelmed.

During Haiti's ongoing humanitarian and security crisis, PAHO has also supported the continuity of healthcare by coordinating medical supplies, strengthening surveillance, supporting vaccination, assisting displaced populations, and helping health facilities maintain essential operations. In February 2025, for example, PAHO coordinated the delivery of 7.7 tons of critical medicines and health supplies to Haiti, including essential medicines, antibiotics, antimalarial treatments, vaccines, and laboratory supplies.

📍 Branch Locations

🇭🇹 Haiti Country Office

Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)
No. 295 Avenue John Brown
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Warehouse

Airport Industrial Park
Route de Tabarre
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

☎️ Phone Numbers

PAHO/WHO Haiti Country Office

• +509 2814-3002
• +509 2244-7675

📧 Email Addresses

• roussettri@paho.org
• promess@hai.ops-oms.org
• e-mail@hai.ops-oms.org

👤 Key People

Dr. Oscar Martin Barreneche

PAHO/WHO Representative in Haiti

Dr. Oscar Martin Barreneche is identified by PAHO as the organization's Representative in Haiti and has publicly represented PAHO in discussions concerning vaccination, emergency health response, medical supplies, health-system challenges, and humanitarian health operations.

Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr.

Director, Pan American Health Organization

Dr. Jarbas Barbosa is the Director of PAHO at the regional level. He participated in the signing of Haiti's 2026–2028 Country Cooperation Strategy with Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population.

💉 Key Product Lines & Brands

Because PAHO/WHO Haiti is not a commercial manufacturer, retailer, or conventional distributor, it does not have a consumer product line or commercial brand portfolio.

Its principal health-related product families and commodities supported through its programs include:

• 💊 Essential medicines
• 💉 Vaccines and immunization supplies
• 🧪 Laboratory supplies and diagnostic materials
• 🩸 Blood-transfusion-related supplies
• 🏥 Emergency medical supplies
• 🧴 Infection-prevention and control supplies
• 🦠 Disease-surveillance materials and systems
• 🧰 Emergency health equipment
• 🧑‍⚕️ Maternal and neonatal health supplies
• 🦟 Malaria-control commodities
• 🧫 Cholera and outbreak-response supplies

PAHO has specifically reported supporting Haiti with vaccines against polio, rabies, pneumococcus and rotavirus, along with antibiotics, antimalarial treatments, laboratory supplies, and medicines for emergency, surgical, maternal/neonatal and chronic-disease care.

These are programmatic health commodities and should not be represented as commercial products sold directly to consumers.

🏥 Products & Services

🩺 Health-System Strengthening

PAHO provides technical cooperation to strengthen Haiti's health system, including institutional capacity, health-service delivery, resilience, governance, and progress toward universal health coverage.

💉 Immunization & Vaccination

The organization supports vaccination programs, vaccine availability, immunization campaigns, cold-chain-related activities, and efforts to restore vaccination coverage among vulnerable populations.

🦠 Disease Surveillance & Outbreak Response

PAHO supports epidemiological surveillance and outbreak detection and response, including work related to cholera, dengue, tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable diseases and other public-health threats.

🚑 Emergency Health Response

The organization supports Haiti's preparedness and response to health emergencies, disasters, outbreaks, violence-related health emergencies and other threats. Its emergency-health mandate covers prevention, preparedness, surveillance, response and early recovery.

💊 Medical Supply & Health Logistics

PAHO helps maintain the availability of essential medicines, vaccines, medical equipment, laboratory materials and other critical supplies, including during periods when insecurity disrupts normal supply chains.

👶 Maternal & Child Health

PAHO supports interventions related to maternal and neonatal health, vaccination, primary healthcare and the reduction of preventable deaths. Its Haiti work has included support for maternal-death surveillance and response.

🧠 Mental Health & Psychosocial Support

PAHO supports mental-health and psychosocial interventions, including assistance for vulnerable and displaced populations affected by humanitarian crises.

🏥 Emergency & Essential Healthcare

PAHO works with health authorities and partners to help restore and maintain essential and lifesaving healthcare services, especially where insecurity has disrupted health-facility operations.

📊 Health Information & Technical Analysis

PAHO develops health profiles, technical reports, epidemiological information, situation reports and other evidence-based resources to support health planning and decision-making.

🤝 Government & Institutional Cooperation

A central component of PAHO's Haiti operation is technical cooperation with the Ministry of Public Health and Population and other national institutions. The 2026–2028 Country Cooperation Strategy formalizes this medium-term cooperation framework.

🌎 Humanitarian Health Coordination

PAHO collaborates with humanitarian organizations, donors and health-sector partners to coordinate emergency health interventions, particularly for displaced and vulnerable communities.

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