This paper provides an overview of the outcomes from a meeting of researchers and people with lived experience of COVID-19 infection (Third Australasian COVID-19 Conference) to share the most recent COVID-19 research findings, and reflect on Australia’s experience managing the pandemic.

This report provides a comprehensive stocktake of the lessons the Indo-Pacific region should draw from COVID-19 at precisely the time there is a risk of forgetting the pandemic’s significance, not just for health, but also for the resilience of societies, economies, and international rules-based trade and security.

Under the auspices of the World Health Organisation, states are currently negotiating a convention or instrument on the prevention of pandemics. To support the negotiations and to prepare states for the future transposition of the convention or instrument, the Regulatory Institute has published this model law on pandemics prevention.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most significant global events in a generation. It has had far-reaching social, health and economic impacts, well beyond the acute impact on human health. This strategy document sets out the direction for the long-term management of COVID-19 for Aotearoa New Zealand.

This report analyses how the shock to the system created by the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted governments’ ability to use emergency dollars for public services, and draws on this analysis to develop recommendations for how states can use future recovery funds to help deliver key services during critical times of need.