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The Western Pacific Surveillance and Response journal (WPSAR) is an open access, peer reviewed journal on the surveillance of and response to public health events in the Western Pacific Region. WPSAR publishes work on acute or ongoing communicable diseases, natural disasters, food safety, bioterrorism, and chemical and radiological events.

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WPSAR articles are indexed in: PubMed/MEDLINE, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Western Pacific Region IndexMedicus (WPRIM/APAMED central), EBSCO and Google Scholar.

Data in these articles are freely available for unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction, as long as the original work is cited, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO licence.

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Webinar series on scientific publishing

WPSAR partnered with TEPHINET to present a webinar series, Scientific Publishing for Field Epidemiologists, to celebrate the inaugural World Field Epidemiology Day on 7 September 2021. The webinar series is available as a playlist on the TEPHINET Secretariat YouTube channel. The four sessions are:

Session 1: Converting Your Field Epidemiology Work Into a Publishable Article
Session 2: Preparing Your Manuscript for Submission
Session 3: Addressing Reviewer Feedback on Your Manuscript
Session 4: Being a Good Reviewer

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COVID-19: Brief Report

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Fieldwork for public health responses during pandemics: lessons from the New South Wales Health experience with COVID-19
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COVID-19: Surveillance System Implementation / Evaluation

Integration of publicly available case-based data for real-time coronavirus disease 2019 risk assessment, Japan
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Early COVID-19 response in two small island developing states: Maldives and Trinidad and Tobago
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Epidemiology of coinfection with tuberculosis and HIV in Japan, 2012–2020
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Announcements

Call for Papers on SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant

08-03-2022

The Editorial Team of Western Pacific Surveillance and Response invites articles on the surveillance of and response to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the Western Pacific Region.