World Mosquito Program: Professor Scott O'Neill & Dr Adi Utarini

04/20/21 • 15 min

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Vaccine Positive Pacific Voices with Will Genia, Dr Edith Kariko and Francyne Jacklick-Wase

Welcome to Episode 27 of Contain This, brought to you by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security. This week we bring you a special episode on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout in the Pacific Region, brought to you by two podcasts - Contain This, and Vosa, supported by the World Bank in the Pacific and Papua New Guinea. This episode is hosted by regular Vosa host Arieta Rika, and will be published across these two great programs.

In this episode, we’ll speak with Will Genia, Australian Rugby Union Player and UNICEF Ambassador, Dr Edith Kariko, World Bank Senior Health Specialist in PNG, and Francyne Jacklick-Wase, Deputy Secretary, Office of Health Planning, Policy Preparedness and Epidemiology in the Ministry of Health and Human Services. Together, we’ll look at what the vaccine means for the Pacific region, and what it means for each of our guests personally.

We hope you enjoy the episode. Be sure to check out previous episodes on Vosa via the link below.

For more information about the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, visit our website indopacifichealthsecurity.dfat.gov.au/vaccine-access

Connect with us on Twitter via @CentreHealthSec and @AusAmbRHS

Links:

Vosa: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/vosa/id1529975088

WHO PNG: https://www.who.int/papuanewguinea

PNG Government’s Niupela Pasin guidelines: https://covid19.info.gov.pg/files/July%202020/07072020/Niupela%20Pasin%20%20Transition%20to%20New%20Normal%20handbook.pdf

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Regulatory Assessment of COVID-19 Vaccines in the Indo-Pacific: Australian support to PNG

Welcome to Season 2 of Contain This and Episode 29.
This week we discuss an essential step in the journey of the COVID-19 vaccine. We bring you insights on how the experts at Papua New Guinea’s Pharmaceutical Services Standards Branch were supported to assess the safety and efficacy of COVUD-19 vaccines in the last few months prior to the first doses arriving in their country.
In this episode, we spoke with Adjunct Professor John Skerritt who heads the Therapeutic Goods Administration within Australia’s Department of Health, Vali Karo, the Acting Manager and Mary Keurih, the product registration technical advisor at the Pharmaceutical Services Standards Branch within PNG’s Pharmaceutical Services Standards Branch.

We hope you enjoy the episode.
For more information about the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, visit our website indopacifichealthsecurity.dfat.gov.au/vaccine-access.
Connect with us on Twitter via @CentreHealthSec and @AusAmbRHS.