Regional Alliance for Learning in Systems for Equitable Child and Adolescent Health (ReALiSE)
Regional Alliance for Learning Health Systems for Equitable (ReALiSE)
The Regional Alliance for Learning in Systems for Equitable Child and Adolescent Health (ReALiSE) is a regional partnership dedicated to placing children and adolescents at the centre of health systems. Guided by the vision of creating healthier populations, stronger health security, and progress towards universal health coverage, ReALiSE works to strengthen equitable health systems across the Asia Pacific region.
Through collaboration with local partners, governments, communities and young people, ReALiSE aims to:
- Increase access to and use of data to support preventative action and improve health outcomes.
- Strengthen the use of data, evidence and learning to drive implementation, quality improvement and resilient health systems.
- Elevate the voices of young people and communities to build trust, address power imbalances and shape more responsive health policies and services.
Working with 26 partner organisations across 12 countries, ReALiSE is supporting locally led initiatives that strengthen child and adolescent health through:
- Improving health system data and the use of oxygen as an essential medicine in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Papua New Guinea.
- Strengthening public health approaches to neglected tropical diseases, including scabies, in Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Tuvalu.
- Supporting young leaders to influence evidence-based adolescent health policy in Fiji and Indonesia.
- Enhancing communicable disease surveillance and generating evidence to inform regional vaccine investment in Fiji, Indonesia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
- Engaging young people, families and communities to improve vaccine confidence and uptake in Indonesia and the Philippines.
ReALiSE is a three-year initiative funded by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through the Centre for Health Security's Partnerships for a Healthy Region Initiative, supporting stronger, more equitable health systems for children and adolescents across the region.
Our Projects
Adolescent Non-Communicable Diseases
Preventing Non-Communicable Diseases in Adolescents in Indonesia
Typhoid STEVIA Vaccine
Generating stronger evidence on the prevalence of typhoid fever among patients admitted to hospital in Indonesia.
Vaccine Uptake - Vaccine Champions Program
Social and behavioural research into vaccine uptake, vaccine resource development, and a vaccine education and communication training program.
VaxPulse - Vaccine Safety
Using AI and large online data to dynamically track vaccine myths and concerns online, to support doctors and communities in staying ahead with clear trustworthy facts.
Adolescent Non-Communicable Disease
Preventing Non-Communicable Diseases in Adolescents in Fiji
GpB Strep Vaccine
World Scabies Program
Reducing the impact of scabies of children and communities.
Vaccine Champions
Increasing vaccine demand in Asia and the Pacific
VaxPulse
Using AI and large online data to dynamically track vaccine myths and concerns online, to support doctors and communities in staying ahead with clear, trustworthy facts.
REAL-MOXY
Working with health facilities to understand how oxygen care is delivered, identify challenges and opportunities, and improve emergency and hospital care for children.
HSS +
Conducting an in-depth child death review to understand contributing factors and find solutions, while ensuring data are shared early with stakeholders to discuss and understand its value, and actions that can be taken. The work aims achieve nation-wide child death reporting, annual data review and to build capability for teams to take local action.
ARIVI
Improving the management and prevention of acute respiratory infections in Lao PDR through enhanced diagnostic capacity and generation of high‑quality evidence on acute respiratory infections (ARIs) epidemiology and aetiology to provide actionable evidence to the Ministry of Health to inform national policies on ARI diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Vaccine NITAG
Supporting Lao PDR's immunisation policy through capacity building and a learning health systems approach.
Child Health Capacity
Strengthening capacity among the paediatricians, trainees, and paediatric nurses in PNG.
Vaccine Modelling PCV 1+1
This observational study aims to describe immune responses to PCV13 in children recovering from measles infection at different periods of post-infection and in healthy children who have not had measles infection in the past six months. All children have not received any PCV doses.
PVC13 Measles Vaccine
This observational study aims to describe immune responses to PCV13 in children recovering from measles infection at different periods of post-infection and in healthy children who had known not to have measles infection in the past six months. All children have not previously received any PCV doses.
World Scabies Program
Reducing the impact of scabies on children and communities.
Asia-Pacific Vaccine Research Network
Increasing vaccine research capability for immunisation policy decision-making