Our work in American Samoa
The WHO Representative Office for Samoa, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau is located in Apia, Samoa. It operates under the umbrella of the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manilla, Philippines. The role of the Office is to act as a catalyst and advocate for action at all levels, from local to global, on health issues of public concern. We work together with a broad spectrum of partners, from all sectors of society, and are involved in a host of closely related public health activities including technical cooperation, capacity building, advocacy and awareness raising, research, and evaluation.
Pacific Islands–WHO multi-country cooperation strategy 2024–2029
The Pacific Islands–WHO Multi-country Cooperation Strategy 2024–2029, or MCCS, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) through a consultative process involving 21 Pacific Island countries and areas (PICs), outlines WHO’s comprehensive and tailored medium-term support plan in the Pacific. This summary provides an overview of the MCCS, highlighting its alignment with regional and global health strategies..
Health system and health situation
American Samoa has one main referral hospital (Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center), and the American Samoa Department of Public Health manages public health services and is responsible for the three community centres providing primary care to the population. While the area enjoys support from the federal Government of the United States of America through grants for programmes, they are not free from persistent issues of limited human and financial resources to meet all their health needs. Partners include the American Samoa Department of Education, local organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and international partners such as the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pacific Community, which provide expertise, capacity-building and resources.
Publications
The Pacific Islands–WHO Multi-country Cooperation Strategy 2024–2029, or MCCS, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) through a...
Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 20-22 September 2023: meeting report
The Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting brought together health leaders from across the Pacific, hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga...
Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2022 - 30 June...
Covering the period from July 2022 to June 2023, this Report highlights how WHO in the Western Pacific Region has worked to turn the hard lessons of the...
Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2021 - 30 June...
This report, covering the period from July 2021 to June 2022, highlights how WHO continued supporting countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region...
The Pacific Island Countries and Areas–WHO Cooperation Strategy 2018–2022 (the “Cooperation Strategy”) documents the medium-term...
WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2018-2022 : American Samoa
American Samoa comprises five volcanic islands and two atolls covering 199 square kilometres in the South Pacific Ocean. American Samoa is an unincorporated...
Health information systems in the Pacific at a glance 2016
This report provides a 2016 snapshot of the status of national health information systems (HIS) in the Pacific. The Meeting on Strengthening Health Information...