Laboratory Publications

The following publications provide useful information for laboratory quality and systems improvement.

Quality Assurance Manual for the diagnosis of Diarrhoeal Diseases

 

2008. Washington State University / Curatio International

Quality manual available in English, Russian and Georgian.

Masterplan for Laboratories in Georgia

 

2005 – 2006. World Bank

Laboratory networks in the Republic of Georgia

 

2004. PHRplus – USAID

Laboratory assessment in Republic of Georgia, focus on VPDs

 

2002. PHRplus – USAID

Quality Assurance Manual for the diagnosis of Diarrhoeal Diseases

 

2007-2008. Washington State University – Curatio International

Available in Georgian, Russian and English.

Advocacy for Public Health Laboratories

 

2004 – 2005. WHO

Participation to the redaction

Vaccine Preventable Laboratory Quality Assurance Guideline

 

2003. PHRplus – USAID

Developed in and for Georgia

Policy and Procedures of the WHO/NICD Microbiology External Quality Assessment Programme in Africa

 

2002 – 2006. WHO – CDC – NHLS

available in French and English

Public Health Panorama, WHO Europe, Volume 1, Issue I, June 2015

 

2015. WHO

SLIPTA E tool improves laboratories audit process in Vietnam and Cambodia

 

2014.

Strengthening Public Health Laboratory Capacity in Thailand for International Health Regulations (IHR)

 

2014. WHO

WHO South-East Journal of Public Health; July- December 2014

“External quality assessment of national public health laboratories in Africa, 2002-2009”

 

2012. WHO

Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Mar 1;90(3):191-199A. doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.091876. Epub 2012 Jan 20.

A Multilingual Tool for Standardized Laboratory Biosafety and Safety Assessment and Monitoring

 

Integrated Quality Laboratory Services (IQLS), Lyon, France, 2 Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States 3African Society of Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

“Tuberculosis Laboratory Management: a systematic approach to built local capacity in Vietnam”

 

2013. FIND – IQLS – CDC Vietnam

4th Conference of The Union Asia-Pacific Region, held from 10-13 April 2013 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The poster, prepared jointly by FIND-IQLS-CDC Vietnam, was awarded by the first prize (press release: http://www.finddiagnostics.org/media/news/130419.html)

“European Union “Yellow pages” for Microbiology Laboratory Services to support outbreak response and control – A needs analysis”

 

2013. ECDC – IQLS

International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, Vienna, Austria, February 15, 2013 to February 18, 2013

Laboratory Quality Management System Handbook

 

2013. WHO – CLSI – CDC

Available in English, French and Russian

Guide for establishing laboratory-based surveillance for antimicrobial resistance

 

2013. WHO – Africa

Laboratory Quality Management System Handbook

 

2013. WHO – CLSI – CDC

Available in English, French and Russian

Bioltrop: Guide du technicien de laboratoire (guideline of the laboratory technician)

 

2001. Antoine Pierson

Available in French (230 pages guideline)

Translation from English to French of the Laboratory Quality Management System Handbook

 

2010-2013. WHO – CLSI – CDC

Translation work from English to French

Translation from English to French of the “Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of Epidemic Dysentery and Cholera”

 

2002. CDC – WHO

Translation work from English to French