The 2nd Quadripartite Pacific One Health Workshop was held from the 30th September to the 2d of October 2026 in Fiji. The Pasifika One Health Impact guideline Framework” co-designed by PREZODE, SPC and PICTs has been recognized as a guide for the development of the Roadmap at Regional and National level.
The three-day event aimed at evaluating One Health progress in the region, pinpointing outstanding gaps and enhancing cross-sector collaboration. It gathered officials and technical officers from human health, animal health, wildlife health/management/conservation, and environment sectors representing Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), as well as regional and international partners (including the Pandemic Fund and Nature4Health). Dr. Léa Indjein participated in the meeting on behalf of PREZODE OHANA,
The event was structured around several sessions:
- Overview of recent developments in One Health initiatives in the region.
- Showcases of country achievements in the implementation of the Quadripartite One Health Joint Plan of Action (OH JPA).
- Review of One Health issues and threats, including health security, climate change, zoonotic diseases, and risk profiling. The Quadripartite also presented available tools to support and scale up One Health actions at a national level.
- Workshops and Parallel sessions.
- Panel discussions
Dr. Léa Indjein participated in the roundtable “Investing in One Health: Overview of One Health support initiatives by partners”. She briefly provided an overview of PREZODE and explained the PREZODE OHANA process. She introduced the vision, barriers, actors, impact areas, priority outcomes, and first activities identified in the ‘Pasifika One Health Impact Framework’. She also presented the suggested implementation roadmap, strategic leverage points, critical gaps requiring future investment, as well as subsequent activities.
The Quadripartite from the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) included one of the PREZODE OHANA’s recommendations: “the Pasifika One Health Impact guideline Framework” co-designed by PREZODE, SPC and PICTs should be utilised as a guide for the development of the Roadmap at Regional and National level”.
PREZODE One Health Action in the Pacific (OHANA) is facilitated by the Connecting Pacific Nations Towards the Development of One Health Impact Frameworks project, led by the University of Queensland and funded by the French Embassy in Australia.
The next step for PREZODE OHANA will be to introduce the details of the Pasifika One Health Impact Guideline Framework to the Pacific One Health Scientific & Technical Working Group (SPC) in November 2026, during the upcoming Pacific Heads of Veterinary and Production Services (PHOVAPS) 2026 meeting.