Arbovirus surveillance staff at the national level prior to COVID-19 outbreak (Q58)

Country	Clinicians	Epidemiologists	Laboratorians	Entomologists/ vector control specialists	Support staff
Australia	0.1	0.2	0.1		0.5
Brunei Darussalam	1.0	0.0		0	10.0
Cambodia	401.0	25.0	157.0	25	375.0
China
Cook Islands	4.0	0.0	4.0	4	10.0
French Polynesia
Japan
Kiribati
Lao People's Democratic Republic		11.0
Malaysia	2.0	10.0	40.0	10	15.0
Nauru
Papua New Guinea	1.0	0.0	0.0	1	1.0
Philippines	1.0	3.0	0.0	0	1.0
Singapore		26.0	19.5	500	0.1
Vanuatu	0.0	2.0	2.0	2	0.0
Viet Nam	1.0	1.0

Number of arbovirus surveillance staff needed to ensure adequate capacity (Q59)

Country	Clinicians	Epidemiologists	Laboratorians	Entomologists/vector control specialists	Support staff
Australia	0.1	1	0.1	1	0.5
Brunei Darussalam	2.0	1		3
Cambodia	450.0	35	200.0	40	450.0
China
Cook Islands	2.0	1	2.0	2	6.0
French Polynesia
Japan
Kiribati
Lao People's Democratic Republic		11	5.0
Malaysia	2.0	10	40.0	10	15.0
Nauru
Papua New Guinea	2.0	2	2.0	2	1.0
Philippines	2.0	6	3.0	3	3.0
Singapore		26	21.5	500	0.5
Vanuatu	2.0	2	2.0	2	2.0
Viet Nam	1.0	1

Additional details regarding current and required staffing numbers (Q60)

Country	Response
Australia	Please note that the majority of arboviral surveillance and response is performed at a state and territory or local level rather than nationally. It should be highlighted that Australia is a federated, decentralised health system, with the responsibility for public health and outbreak management largely resting with state/provincial authorities. This includes vector surveillance and control and arboviral surveillance. The below figures are only provided for the national Department of Health, and are not representative of Australia’s capacity, capability or expertise:
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
China	In China, there are infectious disease hospitals at the provincial and municipal levels, and infectious diseases departments are esablished in county level hospitals, which are responsible for the treatment of diseases transmitted by Aedes. Currently, mosquito borne diseases are not the main public health burden in most areas, and these diseases are managed by related infectious disease doctors and general practitioners. The Centers for disease control at all levels are responsible for epidemiological investigation and laboratory testing. There are endemic areas of dengue fever all year round, and the hospital laboratory department also undertakes the corresponding testing work.
Cook Islands
French Polynesia	Données non divulguables dans le respect de l'obligation de discrétion professionnelle
Japan	Cases of mosquito borne diseases in Japan are mostly import cases and numbers of cases are small, so we have not done those assessments questioned as 58 and 59.
Kiribati
Lao People's Democratic Republic	There are 94 Lao Field Epidemiology Training Programme Graduates to support and strengthen arboviral disease surveillance nationwide.
Malaysia
Nauru
Papua New Guinea	Not sure of the details, as we haven't collected these information.The country has 22 provinces with 22 provincial hospitals .These provinces come under 4 regions and have regional referral hospitals. Currently there is only one staff involve in dengue work with no moral support of such staff as listed above.
Philippines	1) Two clinicians to tackle the wide range of arboviruses (one for control and prevention and the other for control and elimination) 2) Considering that there is an Epidemiology Bureau, just additional staffing for a more up to date reports within the 3 groups of island (2 for Luzon, 2 for Visayas, 2 for Mindanao) 3) Laboratorians to conduct the research endeavors of the program 4) Entomologists to handle the vector control concern per group of island 5) Support staff to handle the routing of policy, administrative support for conduct of capacity building, and settling of procurement concerns.
Singapore	The arbovirus surveillance system incorporates diagnosis and lab-confirmation at primary care, followed by notification of cases to the Health Ministry and the National Parks Board (for animals) for consolidation, analysis and sense-making. The number of clinicians in healthcare facilities, and laboratory staff in clinical laboratories is not known and not included in the above data. The Entomologists / vector control specialists who carry out Arboviral disease related vector surveillance and control, also carry out surveillance and control for other vectors including rats, fleas, flies and cockroaches. The number excludes personnel working in the pest control industry and in other institutions.
Vanuatu
Viet Nam	we have 1 focal point to monitor dengue fever at national level at regional institutes, we have staff about: surveillance, epidemiology, entomology, laboratory