Capacity Building
Long-distance and on-site interventions to improve laboratory facility, knowledge transfer, and standardisation of protocols.
- Biosafety containment for arthropod infection
- Guidance on the required steps and safety regulations to perform arthropods infection under Arthropod Containment Level 3 – ACL3, including providing feasible solutions for adapting your lab to work with infected arthropods.
- Virtual reality courses
- Guidance on the required steps and safety regulations to perform arthropods infection under Arthropod Containment Level 3 – ACL3, including providing feasible solutions for adapting your lab to work with infected arthropods.
- Experimental design and scientific support
- Planning and designing experimental activities assessing the presence and abundance of vectors in your area.
- Experimental design
- Guidance on required investigations, methodologies, instruments, time to understand the ability of pathogen transmission concerning vector species present in the area of study.
- Support in creating a tailored control programme
- Supporting in creating synergies with national and international recognised laboratories dealing with vector and vector-borne diseases.
- Define critical gaps and needs
- Sfor preparedness towards vector-borne disease.
- Funding search
- Support to search for suitable funds, calls, funding agencies, and partnership opportunities.
- Supervision of scientific staff
- Tutoring and coaching during operational activities in the field or the laboratory.
- Laboratories set-up
- Guidance and professional support on setting up laboratories for vector-borne disease studies, including required instrumentation, protocols, and SOPs.
- Insectaries set-up
- Guidance and professional support on establishing insectaries for local and exotic species of biting arthropods (mosquitoes, Culicoides, sand flies, flies, etc..).