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.

Through the Pacific Networked Diagnostics and Support project (PaNDAS), CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) is working with laboratories and field partners in Pacific Island countries and territories to strengthen Pacific capabilities to detect and diagnose animal and zoonotic diseases in the region.

CSIRO's Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) is supporting Southeast Asian and Pacific laboratories to adopt modern animal health diagnostic and surveillance tools through the APPLLe project.

CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) is working with laboratories and field partners in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines to strengthen capabilities to detect and diagnose emerging infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface.

CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) is providing targeted biorisk management training to laboratory leaders across Southeast Asia and the Pacific.