MORE than 200 researchers, academics and health experts from across the region are in Nadi for the Pacific Islands Health Research Symposium.
The symposium highlighted the Social Determinants of Health in the Pacific.
"In this symposium, we are not really talking about the medical side of things, we are talking about diseases that are determined socially and how they can be dealt with socially," Minister for Health Doctor Neil Sharma said in his opening address yesterday.
Dr Sharma highlighted the need for more vital data to be made available that would assist doctors and those in the public health sector address health-related problems.