WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis
Project leader(s): Associate Professor Benjamin Cowie
Collaborator(s): Cambodian Ministry of Health, Council for the Development of Cambodia, Medecins Sans Frontieres, World Health Organisation, WHO Western Pacific Region
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis provides:
- Diagnostic testing surveillance
- Advocacy
- Education
- Workshops
- Training
- Policy advice
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Needs and situational assessments
- Laboratory analysis
Collaboration with the Institute Pasteur
Project leader(s): Professor Sharon Lewin
Collaborator(s): Institut Pasteur du Cambodge
Strategic partnership between the Doherty Institute and selected Institutes Pasteurs, with a focus on IP Cambodia and IP Korea.
Avian influenza phylogenetic analysis
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
Project leader(s): Dr Yi-Mo Deng
Collaborator(s): Institut Pasteur du Cambodge
To collect recent avian influenza viruses from wet market, select H5/H7/H9 for next generation sequencing of whole genome and to study the evolution and reassortment of avian viruses in Cambodia.
Molecular epidemiology of influenza
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
Project leader(s): Dr Yi-Mo Deng
Collaborator(s): Institut Pasteur du Cambodge
This project studies systemetically the molecular characterization of phylogeny of avian influenza in Cambodia wet market, to better understand the potential risk presented by AIV to humans.
Collaboration in bacterial AMR Research
Project leader(s): Professor Tim Stinear
Collaborator(s): Institut Pasteur du Cambodge
The Doherty Institute and Institut Pasteur Cambodia have developed collaboration in research on antimicrobial resistance, including the appointment of a joint position hosted at Institut Pasteur.
Incentives for early declaration and effective prevention of avian influenza in the Mekong
McVernon group and the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Project leader(s): Professor Jodie McVernon
Collaborator(s): Nossal Institute for Global Health; NIPH Cambodia; Lao Tropical and Public Health Institute; Pasteur Institute (Vietnam); Health Strategy and Policy Institute (Vietnam); Hanoi University of Public Health (Vietnam)
Funding: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
This collaboration with the Nossal Institute seeks to apply insights from human health systems development to the strengthening of veterinary health systems in Greater Mekong Subregion countries, to enhance early reporting of animal infections and reduce the risks of zoonotic disease.