ABOUT PIHOA
The Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA) is a non-profit organization that is led by and represents the collective interests of the Ministers, Secretaries, and Directors of Health of the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI). The USAPI include the three U.S. Flag Territories of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, and the three Feely Associated States (independent nations in a special compact relationship with the United States) of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia (Pohnpei, Kosrae, Chuuk, and Yap). The USAPI are populated by more than 500,000 people who live on hundreds of Islands and atolls spanning millions of square miles of ocean and crossing five Pacific time zones. PIHOA’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of USAPI communities by providing, through consensus, a unified credible voice in health issues of regional significance.
LATEST NEWS
PIHOA Governing Board Members and Secretariat Staff Attend the 15th Pacific Ministers of Health Meeting in Tonga
September 21, 2023 (Nuku'alofa, Tonga) - PIHOA Governing Board President and Palau Minister of Health and Human Services, the Honorable Gaafar...
The 2023 Pacific Vector Control and Outbreak Response Training on Mosquitoes is underway in Hilo, Hawaii!
September 11, 2023 (Hilo, HI) - The Pacific Vector Network (PVN), Hawaii Department of Health, Hawaii Invasive Species Council, and the Pacific...
PIHOA E-Blast: Twenty-Two Participants Completed Pesticide Applicator Training in Pohnpei
August 28, 2023 (Honolulu, HI) - Twenty-two participants followed a week-long pesticide application training in Pohnpei to prepare and strengthen...

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