WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis
Project leader(s): Professor Benjamin Cowie
Collaborator(s): World Health Organisation
The WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis performs a broad range of activities supporting national and global control of viral hepatitis, including basic research, reference virology and diagnostics, surveillance strengthening and evaluation, treatment and prevention initiatives, situational analysis, and training and regional capacity building. In addition, the Centre is active in public health policy development and assists WHO in developing and reviewing technical guidelines and operational plans across the region.
In conjunction with the designation as a WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Hepatitis B in 2010, the Centre assists the WHO and Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) with advice and support for approaches to the prevention and management of viral hepatitis, and provides technical support on laboratory diagnostics.
The Centre also enables the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory (VIDRL) and the Doherty Institute to extend the scope and geographic reach of their research, training and regional capacity building activities related to viral hepatitis.
Workshop
WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
Project leader(s): Professor Patrick Reading
Training workshop for doctors, nurses and surveillance representatives to strengthen influenza-like illness and severe acute respiratory infections surveillance in the Solomon Islands.