Lessons from the Field

• Experience conducting COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and the Philippines: lessons for future epidemics and potential pandemics

  Takeshi Arashiro, Regina Pascua Berba, Joy Potenciano Calayo, Rontgene Solante, Shuichi Suzuki, Jinho Shin, Motoi Suzuki, Martin Hibberd, Koya Ariyoshi, Chris Smith

  04-06-2025

• Equipping Pacific emergency medical teams for self-sufficient health emergency response in remote and resource-limited island settings

  Pierre-Yves Beauchemin, Erin E Noste, Jan-Erik Larsen, Sean T Casey

  03-06-2025

• Lessons learned from the public health response to chemical pollution in Tebrau River, Johor, Malaysia, 2024

  Mohd Faiz Ibrahim, Nurazimah Mohd Aris, Afiqah Syamimi Masrani, Noor Adillah Dawad, Md Faizul Abd Razak, Haidar Rizal Toha, Mohd Anwar Shahrir Ahmad, Jeyanthini Sathasivam

  27-05-2025

• COVID-19 infection control practices in designated quarantine hotels in Hong Kong SAR (China), 2020–2022: key elements in preparing for the next pandemic

  Edmond Siu-keung Ma, Hong Chen, Shuk Kwan Chuang

  04-03-2025

• Incorporating One Health into a front-line field epidemiological training programme in Papua New Guinea: lessons learned

  Kelitha Malio, Bethseba Peni, Elaine Hevoho, Abel Yamba, Alois Pukienei, Laura Macfarlane-Berry, Trinidad Velasco Ortuzar, Barry Ropa, Ilagi Puana, Therese Kearns, Tambri Housen

  12-11-2024

• Lessons learned from conducting a serological survey for Japanese encephalitis after detecting the first cases in New South Wales, Australia, 2022

  Zoe Baldwin, Sarah Davies, Kirsty Hope, Jennifer Case

  12-11-2024

• Sorcery and witchcraft beliefs on the front line of public health response in Papua New Guinea and beyond

  Miranda Forsyth, Joanne Taylor, Tambri Housen, Celeste Marsh, Philip Gibbs, William Kipongi

  04-09-2024

• Harnessing the power of mobile and messaging apps for risk communication and intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from the Western Pacific

  Fernan Talamayan, Lieke Visser, Babatunde Olowokure, Nancy Wong, Wenyajing Zhang

  20-08-2024

• One response: Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network supporting the COVID-19 response, Kiribati

  Louise Laurie, Margaret Leong, Toata Titaake Kaufusi, Helen Murdoch, Wendy Snowdon, Sharon Salmon, Peta-Anne Zimmerman

  28-06-2024

• COVID-19 preparedness and response in the Pitcairn Islands: keeping one of the world’s smallest and most isolated populations safe in a pandemic

  Darralyn Griffiths, Kevin Walters, Sean T Casey

  27-06-2024

• Responding to COVID-19 on the outer islands of Tuvalu

  Karen Hammad, Lily Tangisia Faavae, Aloima Taufilo, Margaret Leong, Viliame Nasila

  09-05-2024

• The roles of emergency medical teams in response to Samoa’s 2019 measles outbreak

  Sean T Casey, Natasha A Mamea-Maa, Matilda Nofoaiga, Bronte Martin, Kevin A Henshall, Melissa Fidow, Durgavasini Devanath, Lepaitai B Hansell, Glen Fatupaito

  26-04-2024

• Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network deployments during the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO Western Pacific Region

  Sharon Salmon, Simon Brinkwirth, Gianluca Loi, Jocelyne M Basseal

  06-02-2024

• Maintaining health-system functionality in response to the surge of COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant, Japan

  Yuki Moriyama, Saho Takaya, Takeshi Nishijima, Howard L Sobel, Norio Ohmagari

  06-02-2024

• Looking back, looking forward: lessons from COVID-19 communication measurement, evaluation and learning (MEL)

  Oxana Onilov, Dexin Gong, Kimberly Chriscaden, Jargalan Tsogt, Maria Socorro Melic, Rosemarie Urquico, Anna Biernat, Anna Postovoitova, Lieke Visser, Nancy Wong, Rosemarie North, Olivia Lawe-Davies

  05-01-2024

• Developing the Disaster Medical Responder’s Course in Singapore

  Jen Heng Pek, Li Juan Joy Quah, Kuan Peng David Teng, Yi Wen Mathew Yeo, Chan Yu Jimmy Lee

  30-11-2023

• Challenges of establishing an emergency medical team in Papua New Guinea

  Ulysses Oli, Rose Hosea, B Priya Lakshmy T Balasubramaniam, Freda Timbi, Gary Nou

  13-10-2023

• Creating “boots on the ground”: addressing the shortage of field epidemiologists in the Philippines through intermediate-level training programmes

  Rio Lat Magpantay, Ray Justin Cacho Ventura, Mariz Zheila C Blanco, Karen B Lonogan, Charmaine Madria-Barangan, Apple Charm Agulto, Rosario Pamintuan

  30-09-2023

• Tonga national emergency medical team response to the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption and tsunami: the first deployment of the Tonga Emergency Medical Assistance Team (TEMAT)

  Siosifa Sifa, Sela Ki Folau Fusi, Sean T Casey, Penisimani Poloniati, Kaloafu Tavo, Yutaro Setoya, 'Ana 'Akauola

  18-08-2023

• Involvement and readiness of fellows from Papua New Guinea’s Field Epidemiology Training Programme in the COVID-19 response, 2020–2021

  James A Flint, Joanne Taylor, Tambri Housen, Barry Ropa, Bernnie Smaghi, Laura Macfarlane-Berry, Celeste Marsh, Alois Pukienei, Mathias Bauri, David N Durrheim

  24-06-2023

• Ensuring access to COVID-19 therapeutics in Pacific island countries and areas

  Gereltuya Dorj, Eva Mata Martinez, Karen Hammad, Biniam Getachew Kabethymer, Nuha Mahmoud

  23-06-2023

• Responding to COVID-19 vaccine-related safety events: WHO Western Pacific regional experience and lessons learned

  Heeyoun Cho, Ananda Amarasinghe, Yoshihiro Takashima

  24-05-2023

• Implementation and use of a national electronic dashboard to guide COVID-19 clinical management in Fiji

  Karen Hammad, Sean Casey, Rigamoto Taito, Sara W Demas, Mohita Joshi, Rashmi Rita, Anaseini Maisema

  22-02-2023

• Lessons from a community vaccination programme to control a meningococcal disease serogroup W outbreak in remote South Australia, 2017

  Louise Flood, Matthew McConnell, Luda Molchanoff, Zell Dodd, Jana Sisnowski, Melissa Fidock, Tina Miller, Karli Borresen, Hannah Vogt, Andrew Lane

  08-03-2021

• A programme to treat chronic hepatitis B in Kiribati: progress and challenges

  Alice Unah Lee, Kathy Jackson, Rosemary Tekoaua, Caroline Lee, Margaret Sue Huntley, David Carl Hilmers

  30-09-2020

• Quality microbiological diagnostics and antimicrobial susceptibility testing, an essential component of antimicrobial resistance surveillance and control efforts in Pacific island nations

  John Kenneth Ferguson, Jacklyn Joseph, Samson Kangapu, Hilda Zoleveke, Nicola Townell, Trevor Duke, Laurens Manning, Evelyn Lavu

  20-02-2020

• Lessons learnt from a three-year pilot field epidemiology training programme

  Damian Hoy, A Mark Durand, Thane Hancock, Haley L Cash, Kate Hardie, Beverley Paterson, Yvette Paulino, Paul White, Tony Merritt, Dawn Fitzgibbons, Sameer Vali Gopalani, James Flint, Onofre Edwin A. Merilles Jr, Mina Kashiwabaram, Viema Biaukula, Christelle Lepers, Yvan Souares, Eric Nilles, Anaseini Batikawai, Sevil Huseynova, Mahomed Patel, Salanieta T Saketa, David Durrheim, Alden Henderson, Adam Roth

  25-09-2017

• Meningococcal disease outbreak related to the World Scout Jamboree in Japan, 2015

  Mizue Kanai, Hajime Kamiya, Alison Smith-Palmer, Hideyuki Takahashi, Yushi Hachisu, Munehisa Fukusumi, Takehito Saitoh, Makoto Ohnishi, Tomimasa Sunagawa, Tamano Matsui, Kazunori Oishi

  08-05-2017

• Vector-control response in a post-flood disaster setting, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 2014

  Matthew Shortus, Jennie Musto, Hugo Bugoro, Charles Butafa, Alison Sio, Cynthia Joshua

  21-01-2016

• Is my drinking a problem? A community-based alcohol intervention programme post-Haiyan in Tacloban City

  Adam Edward Czaicki, Gloria Fabrigas, Allison Gocotano, Julie Lyn Hall

  06-11-2015

• Social media as a risk communication tool following Typhoon Haiyan

  Christine Tiffany Cool, Marie Chantal Claravall, Julie Lyn Hall, Keisuke Taketani, John Paul Zepeda, Monika Gehner, Olivia Lawe-Davies

  06-11-2015

• Restarting the tuberculosis programme post-Haiyan

  Woojin Lew, Rosalind Vianzon, Anna Marie Celina Garfin, Julie Lyn Hall

  06-11-2015

• Estimating the size of key populations at higher risk of HIV infection: a summary of experiences and lessons presented during a technical meeting on size estimation among key populations in Asian countries

  Dongbao Yu, Jesus Maria Garcia Calleja, Jinkou Zhao, Amala Reddy, Nicole Seguy

  01-10-2014

• The Pacific experience: supporting small island countries and territories to meet their 2012 International Health Regulations (2005) commitments

  Adam Craig, Jacob L Kool, Eric J Nilles

  10-07-2013

• Human resources for health: lessons from the cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea

  Alexander Rosewell, Sibauk Bieb, Geoff Clark, Geoff Miller, Raina MacIntyre, Anthony Zwi

  03-07-2013