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WHO Collaborating Centre for Laboratory Preparedness and Response to High Threat Pathogens and Biorisk

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WHO Collaborating Centre for Laboratory Preparedness and Response to High Threat Pathogens and Biorisk

The Netherlands Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) is home to several WHO Collaborating Centres. The WHO Collaborating Centre for Laboratory Preparedness and Response for High Threat Pathogens and Biorisk, launched in 2021, supports the WHO through capacity and capability building activities aimed at laboratory preparedness as well as response activities to high threat pathogens and biorisk management. The work of the Centre takes place in the WHO Euro region, with a focus on the Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia. Thus far, activities performed by the Centre have included the performance of country assessments to map the current situation in diagnostic capacities; the delivery of various training activities (either in country or at RIVM) such as a Biosafety Level 3 training and a training program focusing on hantavirus, which covers diagnostics and bio-risk assessment; the development of tools to prioritize high threat pathogens and improve sustainability; development of the draft document “Preparing for emergencies – A guidance for health laboratories,” which provides critical considerations for public health laboratories to improve their response to emerging pathogens or disasters that hamper laboratory operations, in close collaboration with WHO; and, the provision of ad hoc expert advice and technical laboratory
support where needed.

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