Australia is partnering with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development (WHO CCNM (UTS)) at the University of Technology Sydney, working with the South Pacific Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers Alliance (SPCNMOA) to improve nursing and midwifery leadership, education, standards, and practice, through the Strengthening Health Workforce in the Pacific (SHWP) initiative.

This partnership develops and implement innovative open-source digital health tools suitable for our region, to improve health outcomes in low-resource settings. This includes Open mSupply, Tamanu, Tupaia, Tupaia MediTrak and DataTrak, and the SENAITE Laboratory Information System and Health Supply Hub. These tools enhance healthcare delivery and data management, making health systems more efficient and effective.

The National Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners (NAATSIHWP) will deliver the Regional Indigenous Partnership: Collaboration for Primary Health Care Workforce Strengthening in Vanuatu project under the Partnerships for a Healthy Region initiative.

Australia is supporting partner countries to build capacity for health systems to anticipate, prevent, detect and control priority disease threats through the Regional Engagement in Surveillance and response to Priority diseases, providing Opportunities for National health system strengthening and Development (RESPOND) partnership with Menzies School of Health Research. 

Australia is strengthening its commitment to the prevention, surveillance and response to infectious diseases across the Indo-Pacific through a strategic partnership with the Doherty Institute. Over the next four years, our partnership will focus on workforce development, policy support, and systems strengthening, and will specifically target laboratory strengthening, genomic surveillance, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and data for decision making.

NCIRS is harnessing the collective skills of Australian Regional Immunisation Alliance (ARIA) members to support Ministries of Health and other key partners to strengthen immunisation programs across our region. ARIA is comprised of more than 65 experts and over 10 affiliated organisations, and works collaboratively with other agencies, including the WHO, UNICEF, and Gavi.

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is partnering with the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to co-deliver the Indo-Pacific Regulatory Strengthening Program (RSP). This program extends the previous TGA-led RSP and covers 22 countries across our region.

Australia is supporting the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) to advance TB treatments through innovative research and capacity building. TB Alliance is improving outcomes for all TB patients and communities through trialling and developing shorter, simplified and more affordable treatment regimes. To ensure faster uptake and access to new life-saving TB treatments, TB Alliance has created a Manila-based peer-to-peer knowledge hub for countries to learn from other national TB programs for implementation of new guidelines and to support clinical training.

Australia’s investment in PATH is helping to advance diagnostic tools for malaria and neglected tropical diseases through research, development, and clinical evaluation. This investment represents a product development partnership between PATH, Burnet Institute and WEHI. This work supports Australian manufacturers to generate tools needed for the availability of novel malaria rapid diagnostic tests, and assays for malaria relapse risk assessment and treatment.