East Asia/Pacific Regional Office | Global Health

Overview

The CDC East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Regional Office is strategically located in Tokyo, Japan and works across an expansive region to strengthen global health security disease detection and response. CDC enhances strategic collaboration bilaterally and multilaterally to address regional health security.

The EAP Regional Office fosters stronger collaboration and partnerships, improving the ability to detect public health threats across the region and stop them at their source. Additionally, it improves information exchange and shared best practices within the region. These efforts bolster regional and U.S. global health security.

Key areas of focus

Working together, CDC and partners will:

• Strengthen collaboration and partnerships with partner governments, international organizations, academia, and other public and private partners to improve regional and global health security.

• Improve detection and rapid response to emerging threats and diseases of public health importance.

• Improve knowledge and information exchange between U.S. CDC and the region on effective public health practices and public health threats.

Regional goals

U.S. CDC and partners are collaborating to:

• Enhance existing and develop new partnerships to advance health security priorities.

• Strengthen capability of the public health workforce.

• Strengthen the capacity of governments to effectively respond to public health emergencies.

• Enhance use of data to improve public health response and development of policy.

• Strengthen surveillance systems to better understand and predict disease trends.

• Promote science and innovation in public health.

• Strengthen public health laboratories.

• Improve ability of countries in the region to address vaccine preventable diseases.

• Work to eliminate diseases of public health importance.

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