Pan American Health Organization

**Pan American Health Organization**
Pan American Health Organization
Membership	35 Member States and 4 Associate Members in the Americas
Leaders
• Director	Jarbas Barbosa
• Deputy Director	Mary Lou Valdez
• Assistant Director	Marcos Espinal
• Director of Administration	Kristan Beck
Establishment	2 December 1902
	Website; www.paho.org

Pan American Health Organization
*Organización Panamericana de la Salud* (Spanish)
*Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde* (Portuguese)
	Logo of the Pan American Health Organization
	Flag of the World Health Organization
Abbreviation	PAHO ; OPS ; OPAS
Formation	1902
Type	Specialized agency of the United Nations and Organization of American States
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
Website	www.paho.org

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in charge of international health cooperation in the Americas. It fosters technical cooperation among member countries to fight communicable and noncommunicable diseases, strengthen health systems, and respond to emergencies and disasters. It has 35 Member States and four Associate Members in the region.^[1] Headquartered in Washington, D.C., PAHO is the regional office for the World Health Organization in the Americas, and the health organization of the Inter-American System. It is known in Latin America as the OPS (Spanish: Organización Panamericana de la Salud) or OPAS (Portuguese: Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde).

^ "Who We Are - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization". www.paho.org. Retrieved 2023-02-15.

[1] "Who We Are - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization". www.paho.org. Retrieved 2023-02-15.

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