Membership

MDU PHL are represented on the below national and international committees and organisations, ensuring broad engagement across current discussions relevant to MDU PHL’s core capacities.

State

  • Victorian Government One Health AMR Strategic Committee

National

  • Australian Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) Gram negative Sepsis Outcome Programme (GNSOP) Research Committee
  • Australian Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (ASTAG)
  • Communicable Diseases Genomics Network (CDGN)
  • Joint PHLN and Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) Expert Advisory Group on COVID-19 Emerging Testing Technologies
  • Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN)
  • Public Laboratory Network of Australia Expert Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
  • Standards Australia Food Microbiology Water Microbiology technical committees (including ISO working groups)

International

  • Center for New Antibacterial Strategies, The Arctic University of Norway
  • Fleming Fund EQAsia Program
  • Member of the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA
  • PHA4GE Steering Committee
  • Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology
  • PulseNet International Steering Committee
  • WHO informal high-level technical expert group on strengthening regional genome sequencing capacity and strategic use of genomic evidence for public health action in the south-east Asian region (SEAR)
  • WHO AMR Surveillance and Quality Assessment Collaborating Centres Network
  • WHO Steering Group for the development of a landscape analysis for application of WGS in AMR surveillance