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