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.

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.

Australia’s partnership with CBM Australia seeks to enhance mental health and psychosocial services, empower individuals with psychosocial disabilities, and foster resilient communities in Fiji and the Philippines. The initiative is achieving its goals by promoting effective rights-based models of care to ensure access to quality mental health services. This includes addressing community inclusion by fostering acceptance and support for the recovery of persons with psychosocial disabilities.

Australia, through The George Institute for Global Health, is implementing a comprehensive program that will strengthen the provision of high quality and equitable prevention, screening and management services for diabetes and hypertension within primary health care systems in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre is supporting the governments of the Philippines and Fiji to adopt national digital health standards and health information exchange systems (interoperability) through the PHR Strengthening Standards Capability Project (SSCP).

This partnership will continue funding for ACIAR to deliver locally-led research across the Indo-Pacific region on the links between human and environmental health and food security, to inform public health interventions. 

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.