Mexico & Central America: Enhancing Regional Collaboration & Capacity
Globalization is forcing national institutions to look beyond their borders, both to seek guidance to solve local problems and to extend the reach of their technical capabilities. Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP), a founding member of IANPHI, recognizes the importance of collaborative initiatives and of shared learning internationally to address public health challenges and opportunities.
The Central American countries, along with the Dominican Republic and Mexico, share a cultural heritage as well as health indicators, population flows, and a long history of collaboration toward the strengthening of core public health functions. INSP is keen to support its neighboring countries and populations through this project, which aims to build capacity for strengthened South-South collaboration in public health, especially in disease surveillance and outbreak investigation.
The overall goal of the project is to identify public health strengths, challenges, and opportunities within and between Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and the countries of Central America and to collaboratively develop an action plan for 2008-2010.
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