The Indo-Pacific region’s health security system, or its ability to avoid and contain infectious disease threats with the potential to cause social and economic harms on a national, regional or global scale, has many weaknesses in both human and animal health. In the last 20 years approximately two-thirds of all new or re-occurring infectious diseases affecting people have originally come from animals. These types of diseases are called zoonoses.

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 Tropical Disease Research Regional Collaboration Initiative: Responding to Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and Malaria in the Asia-Pacific aims to strengthen health systems and research capacity, including high-quality operational research to prevent and contain malaria and TB.

Through a scholarship program, national regulatory authority staff will complete postgraduate level courses from the Graduate Certificate in Health Products Regulation program at Duke-National University of Singapore.