Brief Report

• Strengthening surveillance, coordination and preparedness in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China: responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

  Serana CY So, Kirran N Mohammad, Shirley WY Tsang, Kam Suen Chan, Dawin Lo, Kin Hang Kung, Albert KW Au

  09-09-2026

  126Views: 126 143Downloads: 143

• Mpox intra-action review in the Philippines, 2025

  Yui Sekitani, Gloria Balboa, Rowena Capistrano, Judith Mariano, Almira Gatchalian, Liezl Fernandez, Anne Dominique Matuba, Anna Marie Celina Garfin, Jose Gerard Belimac, Angelica Mae Oira, Soonjong Bae, Princess Mhyco Esguerra, Cling Malaco, Kathleen E Ryan, Juan Paolo Tonolete, Kathleen Taylor Warren, Wenyajing Zhang, Sean T Casey

  07-09-2026

  420Views: 420 420Downloads: 420

• Integrating hospital information systems into foodborne disease surveillance: retrospective assessment, Shenzhen, China, 2024–2025

  Yuchen Xie, Yan Zhou, Zhou Wang

  26-05-2026

  384Views: 384 363Downloads: 363

• Development of monitoring and evaluation guidelines for Indonesia’s national Early Warning Alert and Response System: aiming for a standardized and systematic assessment

  Shingo Nishiki, Irma Gusmi Ratih, Nur Assyifa Daiyah Fillah, Rizki Dinar Winiar, Isamu Kuboki, Rendy Manuhutu, Lia Septiana, Eka Muhiriyah, Triya Novita Dinihari

  20-04-2026

  397Views: 397 583Downloads: 583

• Description of events reported to the Australian National Focal Point, 2014–2023

  Amish Talwar, Martyn D Kirk

  25-03-2026

  412Views: 412 222Downloads: 222

• Development and utilization of an open-data, web-based geographic information system to support the response to the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, Japan

  Ryo Horiike, Tomoya Itatani, Hisao Nakai, Kentaro Tanaka

  16-03-2026

  462Views: 462 364Downloads: 364

• Strengthening international response capacity: International Infectious Diseases Fellowship Programme for Japanese clinicians

  Takuya Adachi, Yayoi Murano

  20-10-2025

  170Views: 170 192Downloads: 192

• Strengthening cross-regional networks: evaluation of Indonesia's national Early Warning Alert and Response System by field epidemiology training programmes from Indonesia and Japan, 2023

  Keiko Tsukada, Irma Gusmi Ratih, Shingo Nishiki, Munehisa Fukusumi, Atik Choirul Hidajah, Fransisca Susilastuti, Anak Agung Sagung Sawitri, I Wayan Sugihana Aradea, Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono, Helda, Dwi Sutiningsih, Nissa Kusariana, Bayu Satria Wiratama, Sugiarto, Indra Dwinata, Oderna, Isamu Kuboki, Rizki Dinar Winiar, Risky Ayunni, Nur Assyifa Daiyah Fillah, Eka Muhiriyah, Yulia Zubir, Emita Ajis, Cepi Irawansyah, Crysti Mei Manik, Firda Aisya, Husni, Orina Melisa Nasution, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Triya Novita Dinihari

  02-09-2025

  447Views: 447 360Downloads: 360

• Emergency medical team reclassification in WHO’s Western Pacific Region: continuous learning and improvement of health emergency response capacities

  Sean T Casey, Roy Cosico, Jorge Salamanca, Camila Lajolo, Erin Noste, Kathleen Warren, Chandra Gilmore, Eystein Grusd, Jan-Erik Larsen, Pierre-Yves Beauchemin, Flavio Salio

  01-09-2025

  296Views: 296 286Downloads: 286

• Whole-genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 from residual viral RNA present on positive rapid antigen test kits for genomic surveillance

  Mohd Ishtiaq Anasir, Khayri Kamel, Nor Malizza G Adypatti, Mohammad Syafiq Jamaluddin, Farah Amira Ahmad, Siti Nurhidayah Norhisham, Muhammad Zulfazli Mohamad Sukri, Nur Rafiqah Rosli, Siti Norazrina Saif, Nurul Izzati Basarudin, Mohamad Azzam-Sayuti, Akmal Hayat Abdul Karim, Mahirah Kamil Puat, Ravindran Thayan, Rozainanee Mohd Zain

  31-03-2025

  210Views: 210 209Downloads: 209

• Focusing field epidemiology training on national health priorities in Papua New Guinea: consultative prioritization, from health workers to policy-makers

  Tambri Housen, Barry Ropa, James Flint, Tony Merritt, Rachel Hammersley-Mather, Alois Pukienei, Rosheila Dagina, Bethseba Peni, Martha Pogo, David N Durrheim

  24-03-2025

  226Views: 226 148Downloads: 148

• Surveillance for respiratory viruses in freshwater bodies visited by migratory birds, the Philippines

  Romeo S Gundran, Dan Drexel Dela Cruz, Milagros R Mananggit, Joely T Ongtangco, Xandre D Baccay, Ronnie D Domingo, Mary Elizabeth G Miranda, Emily Bailey, Samantha Gabrielle Cody, Laura A Pulscher, Emily R Robie, Gregory C Gray

  12-08-2024

  172Views: 172 218Downloads: 218

• A case study of the Philippines’ COVID-19 after action review

  Elliot Brennan, Charade B Mercado-Grande, Rowena Capistrano, Yui Sekitani, Kathleen Ryan, Landry Ndriko Mayigane

  23-07-2024

  423Views: 423 250Downloads: 250

• Modifying routine emergency medical team introductory training to a virtual storytelling (talanoa) format for Pacific island countries and areas

  Anthony T Cook, Sean T Casey, Erin Noste

  22-04-2024

  392Views: 392 169Downloads: 169

• Developing and maintaining health emergency response capacity: Palau’s national emergency medical team

  May Morag Ferguson, Sean T Casey, Wally Omengkar, Gaafar J Uherbelau, Terepkul Ngiraingas, Belinda Eungel

  19-12-2023

  391Views: 391 205Downloads: 205

• Tailoring a national emergency medical team training package for Pacific island countries and areas

  Erin Elizabeth Noste, Anthony T Cook, Jan-Erik Larsen, Simon Cowie, Sean T Casey

  15-12-2023

  433Views: 433 266Downloads: 266

• Population compliance with COVID-19 directions in December 2021, Queensland, Australia

  Marguerite Dalmau, Ramim Sourjah, Ross Andrews, Emma Field, Stephen Lambert

  29-11-2023

  131Views: 131 143Downloads: 143

• How Ho Chi Minh City adapted its care pathway to manage the first large-scale community transmission of COVID-19

  Luong Ngoc Khue, Nguyen Trong Khoa, Vuong Anh Duong, Do Thi Hong Hien, Satoko Otsu, Phung Kim Quang, Dereje Abera Ayana, Saho Takaya, Howard L Sobel, Vu Quang Hieu

  30-09-2023

  183Views: 183 246Downloads: 246

• Localizing health emergency preparedness and response: emergency medical team development and operations in Pacific island countries and areas

  Sean T Casey, Erin Noste, Anthony T Cook, Jan-Erik Larsen, Simon Cowie, May M Ferguson, Pierre-Yves Beauchemin

  15-06-2023

  462Views: 462 236Downloads: 236

• Strengthening health emergency response capacity in Kiribati: establishing the Kiribati Medical Assistance Team (KIRIMAT)

  Sean T Casey, Anthony T Cook, May M Ferguson, Erin Noste, Katarake T Mweeka, Tabutoa Eria Rekenibai, Wendy Snowdon

  24-04-2023

  380Views: 380 293Downloads: 293

• After-action reviews for emergency preparedness and response to infectious disease outbreaks

  Ha-Linh Quach, Khanh Cong Nguyen, Florian Vogt

  22-03-2023

  196Views: 196 219Downloads: 219

• Urgent actions to save lives when ICU bed needs approach or exceed capacity: lessons from Mongolia

  Buyantogtokh Batsukh, Bund-Ochir Khishigsaikhan, Dulamragchaa Buyanbaatar, Gerelmaa Danzan, Nansalmaa Munkhtur, Ariuntuya Ochirpurev, Takeshi Nishijima, Howard Sobel, Masahiro Zakoji

  09-09-2022

  146Views: 146 179Downloads: 179

• Ongoing rubella epidemic in Osaka, Japan, in 2018–2019

  Daiki Kanbayashi, Takako Kurata, Hideyuki Kubo, Atsushi Kaida, Seiji P Yamamoto, Kazutaka Egawa, Yuki Hirai, Kazuma Okada, Ryo Ikemori, Takahiro Yumisashi, Akira Yamamoto, Hideki Yoshida, Takanori Hirayama, Kazuyoshi Ikuta, Kazushi Motomura

  30-06-2020

  179Views: 179 262Downloads: 262

• Seroprevalence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in public health workers responding to a MERS outbreak in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in 2015

  Boyeong Ryu, Sung-Il Cho, Myoung-don Oh, Jong-Koo Lee, Jaein Lee, Young-Ok Hwang, Jeong-Sun Yang, Sung Soon Kim, Ji Hwan Bang

  06-06-2019

  184Views: 184 302Downloads: 302

• Preparation for mass gathering events from the perspective of a non-host country: the experience of Japan during the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games

  Kazuaki Jindai, Takuya Yamagishi, Munehisa Fukusumi, Shingo Nishiki, Yusuke Kobayashi, Yusuke Matsui, Tamano Matsui, Kazunori Oishi

  08-02-2019

  192Views: 192 257Downloads: 257

• PanStop: a decade of rapid containment exercises for pandemic preparedness in the WHO Western Pacific Region

  Edna Kwamboka Moturi, Katherine Horton, Leila Bell, Lucy Breakwell, Erica Dueger

  18-12-2018

  204Views: 204 270Downloads: 270

• Influenza virus detection: driving change in public health laboratories in the Western Pacific Region

  Raynal C Squires, Patrick C Reading, Sheena G Sullivan, Ian G Barr, Frank Konings

  05-09-2018

  180Views: 180 355Downloads: 355

• Exposure to H1 genotype measles virus at an international airport in Japan on 31 July 2016 results in a measles outbreak

  Aika Watanabe, Yusuke Kobayashi, Tomoe Shimada, Yuichiro Yahata, Ayako Kobayashi, Mizue Kanai, Yushi Hachisu, Munehisa Fukusumi, Hajime Kamiya, Takuri Takahashi, Yuzo Arima, Hitomi Kinoshita, Kazuhiko Kanou, Takehito Saitoh, Satoru Arai, Hiroshi Satoh, Hideo Okuno, Saeko Morino, Tamano Matsui, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Makoto Takeda, Katsuhiro Komase, Kazunori Oishi

  03-04-2017

  512Views: 512 1315Downloads: 1315

• Is population ageing cancelling out progress made in tuberculosis control in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region SAR (China)? Age-adjusted analysis of case notification data, 1990–2015

  Jun Li, Nobuyuki Nishikiori, Chi Chiu Leung, Engkiong Yeoh, Puihong Chung

  03-04-2017

  429Views: 429 981Downloads: 981

• Responding to the syphilis outbreak in Japan: piloting a questionnaire to evaluate potential risk factors for incident syphilis infection among men who have sex with men in Tokyo, Japan, 2015

  Masahiro Ishikane, Yuzo Arima, Ichiro Itoda, Takuri Takahashi, Takuya Yamagishi, Tamano Matsui, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Kazunori Oishi, Makoto Ohnishi

  11-07-2016

  503Views: 503 2161Downloads: 2161

• Using the two-source capture–recapture method to estimate the incidence and case ascertainment of congenital rubella syndrome in Australia, 1993–2013

  Nicolee Martin, David Durrheim, Gulam Khandaker, Michelle Butler, Cheryl Jones

  29-03-2016

  295Views: 295 1259Downloads: 1259

• Underreporting of influenza outbreaks in aged care facilities in South Western Sydney, Australia, 2014

  Leng Boonwaat, Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey, Stephen Conaty

  18-03-2016

  488Views: 488 1366Downloads: 1366

• Communicating about the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak to the international community and in-country foreigners, Republic of Korea, 2015

  Minwon Lee, Jooyoung Sohn, Kidong Park

  24-02-2016

  284Views: 284 991Downloads: 991

• Surveillance and response of hepatitis B virus in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, 1988–2014

  Ada Wai-chi Lin, Ka-Hing Wong

  03-02-2016

  1322Views: 1322 1514Downloads: 1514

• Engaging the international community during the 2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak in the Republic of Korea

  Minwon Lee, Hoohee Nam, Sun-Gyu Lee, Ok Park, Youngmee Jee, Kidong Park

  01-02-2016

  306Views: 306 1311Downloads: 1311

• The influence of the Great East Japan Earthquake on tuberculosis control in Japan

  Akira Shimouchi, Noriko Kobayashi, Yoko Nagata, Minako Murakawa, Nobutatsu Ishikawa

  21-12-2015

  467Views: 467 799Downloads: 799

• Guidelines and training for maternal and newborn care post-Haiyan

  Jacqueline Kitong, Anthony Calibo

  06-11-2015

  326Views: 326 1170Downloads: 1170

• Use of the WHO Package of Essential Noncommunicable Disease Interventions after Typhoon Haiyan

  Rammell Eric Martinez, Ronaldo Quintana, John Juliard Go, Ma Sol Villones, Mae Analyne Marquez

  06-11-2015

  364Views: 364 953Downloads: 953

• Managing surge staff and resources at the WHO Representative Office in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan

  Rosemarie Urquico, Heleisha Racel Laviña, Megan Counahan, Julie Lyn Hall

  06-11-2015

  284Views: 284 746Downloads: 746

• Surveillance for and issues relating to noncommunicable diseases post-Haiyan in Region 8

  Rammell Eric Martinez, Ronaldo Quintana, John Juliard Go, Mae Analyne Marquez, Jae Kyoun Kim, Ma Sol Villones, Miguel Antonio Salazar

  06-11-2015

  323Views: 323 963Downloads: 963

• Can you help me write my story? The institutional affiliations of authors of international journal articles on post-disaster health response

  Allison Gocotano, Megan Counahan, Vicente Belizario, Kenneth Hartigan-Go, Gloria Balboa, Marilyn Go, Manuel Dayrit, Julie Lyn Hall

  06-11-2015

  343Views: 343 852Downloads: 852

• Is registration of foreign medical teams needed for disaster response? Findings from the response to Typhoon Haiyan

  Sasha Peiris, Joel Buenaventura, Nevio Zagaria

  06-11-2015

  322Views: 322 808Downloads: 808

• Sex matters – a preliminary analysis of Middle East respiratory syndrome in the Republic of Korea, 2015

  Andreas Jansen, May Chiew, Frank Konings, Chin-Kei Lee, Ailan Li

  22-07-2015

  404Views: 404 1163Downloads: 1163

• Sexually transmitted infections among transgender people and men who have sex with men in Port Vila, Vanuatu

  Vanessa Veronese, Caroline van Gemert, Siula Bulu, Tamara Kwarteng, Isabel Bergeri, Steven Badman, Alyce Vella, Mark Stoove

  05-03-2015

  286Views: 286 2208Downloads: 2208

• Brief behavioural surveys in routine HIV sentinel surveillance: a new tool for monitoring the HIV epidemic in Viet Nam

  Cong Thanh Duong, Tran Hien Nguyen, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Thi Thanh Ha Hoang, Hong Thang Pham, Thi Thanh Ha Nguyen, Anh Tuan Le, Dai Quang Tran, Hong Tram Tran, Le Hai Nguyen, Thi Thu Huong Phan, Hai Son Vo, Hoang Duc Bui, Thien Nga Nguyen, David Jacka, Keith Sabin

  27-02-2015

  414Views: 414 1590Downloads: 1590

• Detection of Campylobacter in human faecal samples in Fiji

  Aruna Devi, Jenny Wilkinson, Timothy Mahony, Thiru Vanniasinkam

  19-12-2014

  399Views: 399 2345Downloads: 2345

• Ongoing local transmission of dengue in Japan, August to September 2014

  Yuzo Arima, Tamano Matsui, Tomoe Shimada, Masahiro Ishikane, Kunio Kawabata, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Hitomi Kinoshita, Tomohiko Takasaki, Yoshio Tsuda, Kyoko Sawabe, Kazunori Oishi

  29-10-2014

  527Views: 527 1282Downloads: 1282

• Preparedness for molecular testing of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus among laboratories in the Western Pacific Region

  Raynal C. Squires, Frank Konings

  14-08-2014

  335Views: 335 765Downloads: 765

• Ongoing increase in measles cases following importations, Japan, March 2014: times of challenge and opportunity

  Takuri Takahashi, Yuzo Arima, Hitomi Kinoshita, Kazuhiko Kanou, Takehito Saitoh, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Hiroaki Ito, Atsuhiro Kanayama, Ayako Tabuchi, Kazutoshi Nakashima, Yuichiro Yahata, Takuya Yamagishi, Tamie Sugawara, Yasushi Ohkusa, Tamano Matsui, Satoru Arai, Hiroshi Satoh, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Katsuhiro Komase, Makoto Komase, Kazunori Oishi

  16-05-2014

  416Views: 416 1359Downloads: 1359

• Natural Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in ticks from a forest area of Selenge province, Mongolia

  G Javkhlan, B Enkhtaivan, B Baigal, P Myagmarsuren, B Battur, B Battsetseg

  06-03-2014

  347Views: 347 1414Downloads: 1414

• International Health Regulations (2005): public health event communications in the Western Pacific Region

  Emily Fearnley, Ailan Li

  30-09-2013

  349Views: 349 819Downloads: 819

• Vibrio cholerae antimicrobial drug resistance, Papua New Guinea, 2009-2011

  Manoj Murhekar, Samir R Dutta, Berry Ropa, Rosheila Dagina, Enoch Posanai, Alexander Rosewell

  02-09-2013

  364Views: 364 1775Downloads: 1775