Better Labs for Better Health

Better Labs for Better Health (Better Labs) is an intersectoral initiative that seeks to support Member States in improving the quality and timeliness of their public health laboratory services and providing sustainable improvements to laboratory services. Laboratory services are an underlying necessity both for strengthening the health care system as a whole and for protecting the health of a country’s population as part of the International Health Regulations (2005) core capacity implementation. Better Labs works alongside specific areas, such as antimicrobial resistance, and with food, veterinary, environmental and public health laboratories whenever possible. Better Labs works with Member States in collaboration with existing networks to identify gaps and the needs to improve these countries’ preparedness and capacity for the laboratory response to outbreaks caused by High Threat Pathogens (HTP). This acknowledges the fact that many managerial issues, such as quality and biosafety, are common to all laboratories.

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