The Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Securirty funds specialist technical advisers in the Pacific Community's Public Health Division and supports the regional Field Epidemiology Training Program.

One of the Centre’s core principles is that health security cannot be achieved without a One Health approach. Approximately 75% of newly emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses (diseases that can transmit from animals to humans) that result from various anthropogenic, genetic, ecologic, socioeconomic and climatic drivers.

What is One Health?

The South East Asia LABoratory Strengthening project (SEALAB) will deliver intensive training that focuses on laboratory systems and networks and explores options to maximize the use of resources for sustainable improvement.

The Accelerating the UPtake of HIV Drug Resistance surveillance initiatives (ACT-UP PNG) aim to laboratory testing and train health workers to manage patients in Mt Hagen and Port Moresby and reduce the spread of HIV drug resistance.

The Australian Red Cross will work with communities in Indonesia and Myanmar to develop plans that identify public health risks and ways the community can help to mitigate these risks.

The project will establish and improve operation of national and sub-national Public Health Emergency Operations Centres in Myanmar and Laos.

CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) has longstanding experience and expertise in detecting animal health diseases in the Indo-Pacific. This program will enable AAHL to share expertise and resources through twinning arrangements with laboratories in Indonesia and Myanmar.

The Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) is a high-level initiative for collective action to eliminate malaria across Asia and the Pacific by 2030.

The Stronger Surveillance for Vector Borne Pathogens project (STRIVE) will support early warning of drug-resistant vectors (mosquitoes) and strengthening of PNGs vector-borne disease outbreak response capability.

At the end of the PacMOSSI project, vector control officers in a minimum of five countries will be using best practices and applying operational research to improve their work, contributing to improved data collection and surveillance.