Welcome to PIHOA!

The Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA) provides a regional voice for the six United States Associated Pacific Islands (USAPI), in their development of sustainable and effective health systems.  It is a cross-borders forum for developing solutions, locating resources, building local capacity, adopting policy, and improving communications with funding sources, policy makers and PIHOA members. 

The mission of PIHOA is to provide a unifying voice and credible authority on health issues of regional significance.  PIHOA works to strengthen cross-cutting public health infrastructure in the USAPI, with priority initiatives that address health workforce development, quality assurance, health data systems, public health planning, and public health laboratories. 

These initiatives have been recently focused on PIHOA’s primary goal:  Addressing the epidemic of non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, in the USAPI.  PIHOA is the primary venue for regional health collaborations in the USAPI, where population centers are small and isolated, with limited human and financial resources, and where coordinating resources and achieving economies of scale are essential for survival.

PIHOA's Regional Events Calendar