SHIELD PAPUA is a collaborative initiative that puts data for action at the heart of Papua’s fight against infectious diseases. The project builds an ecosystem for generating in-depth infectious diseases landscape analyses, advancing epidemiological and statistical intelligence, and improving policy engagement.

SHIELD PAPUA brings together a coalition of partners—spanning national and local governments, the health and non-health sectors, non-government organizations, international development agencies, research institutions, universities, and the statistics offices — to drive a unified disease elimination agenda for high impact.

Through ten driven initiatives, the project will build a framework for generating real-time, actionable evidence, assessing what works, and enabling faster, smarter, and more accountable decisions.