Brief Report

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

  29-11-2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Ha-Linh Quach, Khanh Cong Nguyen, Florian Vogt

  22-03-2023

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Leng Boonwaat, Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey, Stephen Conaty

  18-03-2016

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Jacqueline Kitong, Anthony Calibo

  06-11-2015

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Detection of Campylobacter in human faecal samples in Fiji

  Aruna Devi, Jenny Wilkinson, Timothy Mahony, Thiru Vanniasinkam

  19-12-2014

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Emily Fearnley, Ailan Li

  30-09-2013

• 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