CSIRO’s Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) is working with laboratories and field partners in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos and the Philippines to strengthen capabilities to detect and diagnose emerging infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface.
Activities include building staff skills in field and laboratory viromics-based surveillance and diagnostics; strengthening regional laboratory networks; and improving data and information sharing.
At successful project completion, WIViREIDS will have supported the four countries to establish more responsive surveillance and diagnostics capabilities to better monitor the at-risk wildlife interfaces in Southeast Asia. In turn, this will contribute to human and animal health security in a region considered at high risk of emerging infectious diseases.
