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.
The Centres of Research Excellence in One Health Research will strengthen resilience to emerging health threats and emergencies in the Indo-Pacific.
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.
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.
The Pac-EVIPP+ program goal is to link partners and programs across the Pacific and Southeast Asia regions for a strong and integrated applied epidemiology workforce. Its main objective is to build and support a strong field epidemiology community through advanced learning pathways, multi-sectoral collaboration, and networks for effective response to health security and public health threats.
Australia is advancing regional health security through the University of Newcastle Field Epidemiology in Action (FEiA) program, supporting public health systems in Papua
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.
The PRIME-TB project aims to establish four knowledge hubs that can pilot and scale up successful innovations in TB case detection and models of care, and conduct enhanced molecular and epidemiological surveillance, supporting the micro-elimination of TB in these areas.