APPENDIX B
WORKSHOP AGENDA
A Workshop on Developing Norms for the Provision of Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts
Location: The Park Hotel, Stadhouderskade 25
1071 ZD Amsterdam | The Netherlands |
DAY ONE: Wednesday, 27 June 2018
9:00 AM | Welcome and Goals of the Meeting |
Ann Arvin, Chair of the Organizing Committee, Stanford University | |
9:10 | Overview of the 2011 Istanbul Workshop, Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories |
Fran Sharples, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) | |
9:25 | Session 1: What Are Donors Trying to Accomplish? |
Session Chair: Ann Arvin | |
What are donors’ goals in providing support for biological laboratories in low-resource countries? What level of lab (BSL-2+, 3, other?) are they supporting? What needs are they trying to meet/capabilities they are trying to build? How do they evaluate whether they achieve those goals? | |
Discussion |
An Introduction to the Current Picture for High Containment Labs
10:15 | Session 2: The Need for Containment Laboratories: An Overview |
Tom Ksiazek, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston National Laboratory | |
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Discussion | |
10:45 | BREAK |
11:15 | Session 3: The Current Picture for Biological Labs—Estimate of Numbers in Low-Resource Countries: Are They Functioning as Planned? |
Fran Sharples, the National Academies | |
11:25 | Session 4: Who Is Funding What Where? A Discussion of Building a Map of Projects |
Session Chair: David Harper, Chatham House | |
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12:30 PM | BREAK FOR LUNCH |
12:45 | Luncheon Speaker: Existing International Standards and Codes |
Kazunobu Kojima, World Health Organization |
Digging Deeper into What Factors Determine Success
1:45 | Session 5: Key Factors for Building and Sustainably Operating High Containment Labs in Low-Resource Contexts: An Overview |
Nancy Connell, Rutgers University | |
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2:00 | BREAKOUT Session 1: Group Discussion of Factors to Consider When Deciding What Biological Laboratory Capabilities a Low-Resource Country Requires |
Breakout Session Chairs: Ann Arvin, David Franz (USAMRIID, ret.) | |
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3:30 | BREAK |
4:00 | BREAKOUT Session 1 continued |
5:00 | Report from Chairs of the Breakout Session Groups, Preview of Topics to Be Addressed in Day 2 |
5:30 | Adjourn Sessions |
6:00 | Reception Discussions of the Workshop and Needs for Day 2 |
7:30 | Adjourn for the day |
DAY TWO: Thursday, 28 June 2018
9:00 AM | Alternatives to Culture Work in loco: Models of Successful Provision of Lower-Containment Laboratory Capacity That Meet Diagnostic and Research Needs |
Session Chair: Charles Chiu, University of California at San Francisco | |
Molecular diagnostics: state of the art, readiness, potential future developments, steps, timeline, and roles; work with inactivated pathogens; remote analysis; centralized or regional laboratories—in loco, in-country, neighbor-nation, international | |
A review of recent experience in West Africa and practical considerations from working in the field. | |
Jonathan Towner, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
10:30 | BREAK |
11:00 | Developing a Candidate Set of Norms |
Instructions to breakout groups, and sharing of documents on existing guidance and suggestions in development | |
BREAKOUT Session 2: Key Dilemmas and Options, Merits, and Downsides to Address Them. Use results to Begin to Develop Candidate Set of Guiding Principles and Common Norms. | |
Session Chairs: Ann Arvin, David Franz | |
12:30 PM | LUNCH DISCUSSIONS of Morning Session and Goals for Afternoon |
1:30 | Resume Breakout Session 2: Continuation, Revision of Candidate Norms |
3:00 | BREAK |
3:30 | Report from Chairs of the Breakout Session Groups Discussion of Group Candidate Norms, Next Steps |
5:00 | ADJOURN WORKSHOP |
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