Organized within the framework of COLMA project (CO-morbid Long-term Disease Management in the Americas: blended interventionThe event will feature specialists from Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala who will share real-world experiences on how redistributing tasks within healthcare teams can improve primary care. The event is free, open to the public, and requires prior registration.
The next Friday March 20th 2026, 14 to 15 pm (Argentina time)The IECS will organize the Webinar “When the team makes the difference: task sharing in primary care”A virtual meeting that proposes to analyze how the strategic redistribution of tasks within health teams can strengthen primary care and improve the response to the needs of the population.
The concept of task sharing refers to the reorganization of roles among different members of the healthcare team to optimize work in the field. During the webinar, concrete implementation experiences from Guatemala, Chile, and Argentina will be presented, with the participation of nurses, community health workers, and healthcare system leaders who will share lessons learned and challenges of this working model.
The aim of the meeting is to move from theory to practice, showing how collaborative work between professionals from different disciplines can reduce the overload on health systems and improve problem-solving at the primary care level.
The activity is aimed at health decision-makers, health center managers and public policy officials, doctors, nurses, health agents, medical students and related careers, public health researchers and community leaders.
Program attempt
14:00 – 14:05 | Opening
Dr. Vilma Irazola
Director of the Department of Chronic Disease Research at IECS
14:05 – 14:20 | The Role of Nursing in the Comprehensive Approach to Non-Communicable Diseases
Carolina Neira, Esq.
Head of the Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Undersecretariat of Public Health, Ministry of Health of Chile
14:20 – 14:35 | Health promoters: building capacities for population care
Dr. Alicia Blanpain
Secretary of Health of the Municipality of Marcos Paz, Argentina
14:35 – 14:50 | Caring Teams: The Role of Nursing Assistants in Guatemala
Dr. Alicia Wellman
Director of Projects in Chronic Diseases, Guatemala
14:50 – 15:00 | Comments and closing remarks
Coordinator: Dr. Vilma Irazola, Director of the Department of Chronic Disease Research at IECS
Registration
The webinar is free, open, and requires prior registration. Access the registration form
About the project
This activity is part of the COLMA project (CO-morbid Long-term Disease Management in the Americas: blended intervention), an international initiative focused on the management of comorbid chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes and depression) in vulnerable populations in Peru and Argentina.
The project is being developed in collaboration with the Scientific University of the South (Peru), King's College London (United Kingdom), University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and University of Limerick (Ireland).
It is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR, United Kingdom).