Watershed Interventions for Systems Health (WISH)

Working with our key partners, Wildlife Conservation Society, Fiji National University’s Fiji Institute of Pacific Health Research and Edith Cowan University’s (Centre for People, Place and Planet), The Watershed Interventions for Systems Health in Fiji (WISH Fiji) our project is a collaborative, research-to-action approach that is working within watershed units to reduce risk of water-related disease and improve downstream ecosystem health.

WISH Fiji is designed to reduce risks to people from Fiji’s three plagues (leptospirosis, typhoid, and dengue), as well as other diarrheal disease (collectively ‘LTDDs’), by improving overall systems health, which provides co-benefits for downstream ecosystems. 

Our WISH program approach is expanding into Papua New Guinea and the Solomons with the support of the Kiwa Initiative and the Australian Government’s Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security.

Watch this video to learn more about this project and the ways that the health and vitality of all human and natural systems are inseparably connected.

Joel Negin's research focuses on health systems strengthening in low- and middle-income countries and he has worked extensively in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. He is Acting Deputy Executive Dean - Research Partnership, and is Sydney ID's Global Health - Pacific Lead.

Aaron Jenkins is an eco-epidemiologist focussing on building applied interdisciplinary understanding of the ecological foundations of health to guide global sustainability.  Aaron has a globally recognized specialty in Pacific aquatic ecosystems, water-related infectious diseases, and is Sydney ID's Pacific Planetary Health Hub Lead.