The Strategic Partnership with Beyond Essential Systems (BES) and the mSupply Foundation (TMF) provides countries in the Indo-Pacific region with access to high-quality digital health and supply chain tools, and builds capacity in using them.This include the ongoing development of the free and open-source digital health products Tamanu (electronic health record), Tupaia (data aggregation, analysis and visualisation platform), SENAITE (laboratory information management system), Open mSupply (logistics management information system), and Health Supply Hub (electronic procurement platform).

Australia’s partnership with World Mosquito Program (WMP) will enhance national resilience to dengue, Zika, and chikungunya by deploying the evidence-based Wolbachia intervention in Dili (Timor-Leste), South Tarawa (Kiribati), and five high-burden Indonesian cities, in alignment with Indonesia’s National Strategic Plan for Dengue Control.

Our partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) is addressing the chronic shortage of qualified animal health workers across the Pacific and Timor-Leste. Together, we are working towards the regional goal of a paraveterinary workforce that is adequately and sustainably trained to support local livestock productivity and regional biosecurity. 

Australia is partnering with the Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) to deliver Ngalu Fānifo, a culturally driven pilot program designed to build capacity and capability of Pacific practitioners and communities in Tonga and Vanuatu, strengthen services across community, primary care and hospital settings, and support families to manage their own mental wellbeing. 

The Asia Pacific Consortium of Veterinary Epidemiology (APCOVE) was established in 2020 to build veterinary epidemiology capacity across the Asia Pacific region. Led by the University of Sydney, APCOVE brings together over 50 animal health experts from all veterinary schools in Australia and New Zealand, and eight partner countries: Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.

This project was developed in response to an identified need within the Pacific to increase diagnostic capacity for animal and zoonotic diseases. The establishment of a Pacific Laboratory Network, including reference laboratories in Australia and New Zealand, will ensure regional coordination, consistent diagnostic approaches, and timely support for animal disease investigations.

This project aims to support laboratory placements and leadership within the Southeast Asian and Pacific region with a focus on Vietnam, in particular Regional Animal Health Office 6 (RAHO6) in HCMC and the National Centre for Veterinary Diagnosis in Hanoi.

This project aims to strengthen national field-to-laboratory capacities and strengthen regional networks for viromics-based emerging infectious disease (EID) surveillance at the wildlife interface. 

This project will provide targeted training of laboratory leaders in biorisk management and development of a community of biorisk practitioners in the region.