Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Article Counting Oceanians of Non-European, Non-Asian Descent (ONENA) in the South Pacific to Make Them Count in Global Health Arnaud Tarantola 1,*, Paul F. Horwood 2 , Cyrille Goarant 3, Bertrand Buffière 4, Solène Bertrand 4, Onofre Edwin A. Merilles 4, Thierry Pedron 5, Elise Klement-Frutos 1,6 , Philippe Sansonetti 5,7, Lluis Quintana-Murci 8 and Vincent Richard 9 1 Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, BP 61–98845 Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia 2 Virology and Viral Diseases, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia 3 Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, BP 61–98845 Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia 4 Communauté du Pacifique/Pacific Community, 95 Promenade Roger Laroque, BP D5, 98848 Nouméa, New Caledonia 5 Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, INSERM U1202, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Docteur Roux, CEDEX 15, 75724 Paris, France 6 Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Centre Hospitalier Territorial, 110 Boulevard Joseph Wamytan, Dumbéa Sur Mer 98835, Nouvelle-Calédonie 7 Chaire de Microbiologie et Maladies Infectieuses, Collège de France, 11 square Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France 8 Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit, Institut Pasteur, 25–28 Rue du Docteur Roux, 75015 Paris, France 9 Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, BP 61—98845 Nouméa cedex, New Caledonia * Correspondence:
[email protected] Received: 29 June 2019; Accepted: 6 August 2019; Published: 9 August 2019 Abstract: Several diseases and vulnerabilities associated with genetic or microbial factors are more frequent among populations of Oceanian, Non-European, Non-Asian descent (ONENA).