Lessons from the Field

• Strengthening post-disaster disease surveillance through field epidemiology support in Indonesia, 2025

  Siti Shofiya Novita Sari, Atik Choirul Hidajah, Arief Hargono, Mulianto, Jontari

  01-09-2026

  567Views: 567 382Downloads: 382

• Achieving zero open defecation status through a community-based programme in Cavite, Philippines, 2013–2019: a field review

  Julius Migriño, Edroico Mari Brillante, Maria Cecil Elisa Esguerra, Orlie John Lavilla, Juan Miguel Lorenzo Milla, Jennifer Coritico

  17-08-2026

  602Views: 602 356Downloads: 356

• A pilot programme of community volunteers to improve hepatitis B medication adherence, Kiribati, 2025

  Thomas Russell, Caroline Lee, Alice Lee, David Carl Hilmers

  15-07-2026

  712Views: 712 671Downloads: 671

• Emergency medical team coordination management following the 2024 Vanuatu earthquake

  Sharin Vile, Jimmy Obed, Pierre-Yves Beauchemin, Samuel Kemuel, Tatsuhiko Kubo, Erin E Noste, Chandra Gilmore, Philippe Guyant, Ryusuke Ikeda, Tomoaki Natsukawa, Kaoru Harada, Yuki Takamura, Hideshige Tanaka, Sean T Casey

  30-06-2026

  919Views: 919 452Downloads: 452

• Maintaining infectious disease surveillance during a national IT outage: lessons from the Republic of Korea’s 2025 data centre fire

  Seunghyun Kwon, Seul-Ki Kang, Jihee Lee, Gyehee Lee, Hyungmin Lee

  15-06-2026

  359Views: 359 211Downloads: 211

• Humour-driven risk communication and community engagement to mitigate dengue: Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2024

  Visith Khamlusa, Vilakone Phangkhamhack, William Seal, Outhikone Souphome In, Rachel Lorimer, Patrice Suyot, Lieke Visser

  01-06-2026

  616Views: 616 668Downloads: 668

• Emergency medical preparedness and response for mass gatherings: Papua New Guinea emergency medical team's experience during Pope Francis's 2024 visit

  Ulysses Oli, Garry G Nou, Rose Hosea, Kelvin Konigala

  23-04-2026

  363Views: 363 468Downloads: 468

• Psychological resilience among emergency medical teams in Singapore

  Eunice Chan, Jacqueline Tan, David Teng, Joy Quah, Jimmy Lee, Mathew Yeo, Pek Jen Heng

  28-07-2025

  230Views: 230 249Downloads: 249

• 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

  276Views: 276 230Downloads: 230

• 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

  286Views: 286 345Downloads: 345

• 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

  659Views: 659 524Downloads: 524

• 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

  547Views: 547 456Downloads: 456

• 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

  128Views: 128 290Downloads: 290

• 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

  117Views: 117 192Downloads: 192

• 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

  377Views: 377 328Downloads: 328

• 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

  284Views: 284 394Downloads: 394

• 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

  225Views: 225 285Downloads: 285

• 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

  363Views: 363 324Downloads: 324

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

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

  09-05-2024

  185Views: 185 213Downloads: 213

• 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

  365Views: 365 463Downloads: 463

• 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

  451Views: 451 231Downloads: 231

• 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

  216Views: 216 230Downloads: 230

• 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

  221Views: 221 192Downloads: 192

• 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

  157Views: 157 180Downloads: 180

• 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

  182Views: 182 252Downloads: 252

• 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

  217Views: 217 180Downloads: 180

• 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

  298Views: 298 315Downloads: 315

• 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

  183Views: 183 179Downloads: 179

• 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

  194Views: 194 201Downloads: 201

• 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

  262Views: 262 255Downloads: 255

• 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

  183Views: 183 245Downloads: 245

• 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

  174Views: 174 175Downloads: 175

• 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

  202Views: 202 193Downloads: 193

• 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

  260Views: 260 363Downloads: 363

• 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

  446Views: 446 1005Downloads: 1005

• 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

  426Views: 426 1188Downloads: 1188

• 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

  428Views: 428 2715Downloads: 2715

• 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

  316Views: 316 1560Downloads: 1560

• 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

  475Views: 475 3189Downloads: 3189

• Restarting the tuberculosis programme post-Haiyan

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

  06-11-2015

  303Views: 303 1000Downloads: 1000

• 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

  342Views: 342 1453Downloads: 1453

• 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

  419Views: 419 835Downloads: 835

• 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

  406Views: 406 2192Downloads: 2192