If you are currently working or have worked in the areas of animal, human and environment health in countries across Asia and the Pacific; this survey is for you!    👉✅ One Health_Indo-Pacific Regional Survey

The questionnaire aims to collect information and data on country-level reception to collaborative approaches to improve the health of animals, humans and the environment.  📢 Government ministries, departments; academia, research institutions; private sector, NGOs and society stakeholders; Your insights are invaluable!  Be an active participant of this regional research initiative, share your knowledge and experience. Your voice in this survey, will help us help us: 

• Build a community of knowledge on Sustainable Governance and One Health,
• Gain insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by our region in the areas of animal, human and environment health,
• Benefit our communities with insights to enhance the decision-making processes concerning animal health governance.

Take Our 👉 ✅ One Health_Indo-Pacific Regional Survey now! all survey responses will be anonymized in all analyses and publications and treated as per the principles of secure processing and confidentiality as agreed to under the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee (GU ref no: 2024/738  Survey Participant Information Sheet)
 
Thank you for your support, IPI-SAHC Project Team

In May 2024 the Griffith research team for the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Indo-Pacific Initiative for Sustainable Animal Health Cooperation (IPI-SAHC) and its multidisciplinary team of expert panellists gathered for their first Expert Panel Workshop meeting, this year held at Sunway University, Centre for Planetary Health in Kuala Lumpur.

Over the three-day workshop, the team discussed how to collectively design the research framework, data collection process, and research-policy engagement pathways that contribute to gender equitable and socially inclusive (GESI) animal health governance. 

Animal health as a concept can range from narrow understandings - limited to the absence of diseases - to broader, more holistic ones including overall welfare and wellbeing of the animal and its environment. How is “animal health” used as a concept in research related to the Indo-Pacific? What subtopics are researchers focusing on? 

This mapping review analyses 1299 English language peer-reviewed journal articles collected through 5 databases to determine the research priorities on animal health in the Indo-Pacific and chart the ways in which animal health is discussed using a One Health frame.

(left to right: Naomi Woyengu, Research Site Adviser, Melodie Ruwet, Research Fellow and Sara Davis, Project Lead) 

Interviews and consultations were held over five days in PNG in both one to one and roundtable meetings forms. Meeting so many actors in-country has allow us to learn from their experience and perspective on the role of smallholder pig farmers in disease prevention, the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak.  
 
Thank you to everyone involved, government, academia, veterinarian specialists, international organisations and NGO’s your insights are of great value to our project, to our research site lead, Naomi Woyengu thank you for making of our first visit to PNG a successful one! 

With a better understanding of the institutional landscape in disease outbreak response in PNG we are now looking forward to establishing a strong basis for our Case Study 2, our community data collection which is schedule to be completed by July 2025.