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.