Final report on the Towards an Integrated Response in the Asia-Pacific Region to Emerging and Re-Emerging Disease Outbreaks, with emphasis on COVID-19 and a One Health Approach: Lessons Learned, Challenges and Opportunities project, scheduled for 13-14 August 2024, which included seminars, workshops, and dialogue tables. The overall objectives were to share experiences and knowledge on prevention, surveillance, and control of emerging and reemerging diseases with an emphasis on the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the importance of the One Health approach, and to establish strategic collaboration links through the identification of expert consultants, networks, and technologies with potential for collaboration to achieve an integrated response that can help mitigate the economic and social impact of future outbreaks of emerging and reemerging diseases in the Asia-Pacific region.

The workshop proved particularly beneficial for APEC developing economies, as they have experienced the most severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and may require additional support to enhance their disease prevention, surveillance, and control systems. This aligns with APEC's capacity building goals, which mentions: 1. to attain sustainable growth and equitable development in the Asia-Pacific region, and 2. to deepen the spirit of community in the Asia-Pacific.