The Consortium for the Standardization of Influenza Seroepidemiology (CONSISE) is a global partnership aiming to standardize influenza seroepidemiology and develop comprehensive influenza investigation protocols to inform public health policy. Read more here.
LIFE is a 3D simulation training app for smartphones that teaches healthcare workers how to manage medical emergencies using game-like training techniques to reinforce the key steps that need to be performed in order to save lives. Read more
GCLP: Facilities, Equipment, Materials & Reagents is the second module of the seven module course 'Good Clinical Laboratory Practice'. Read more
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Updates and guidelines
The Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has confirmed 2 new cases of MERS-CoV between 16-21 March 2017. For daily reports, please visit the MOH website, here.
News and Media
Qatar reports its first MERS case of 2017
22 Mar 2017 | CIDRAP
Updates and guidelines
Respiratory Virus Detections/Isolations in Canada, Week 11 ending March 18, 2017
23 Mar 2017 | PHAC
Influenza update
20 Mar 2017 | WHO
National flu immunisation programme plan
20 Mar 2017 | PHE
Summary of Assessment of Public Health Risk to Canada Associated with Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus in China
17 Mar 2017 | PHAC
News and Media
Why flu shots fail even when the match is right
22 Mar 2017 | CNN
Kentucky reports low-path H7N9 in commercial flock
21 Mar 2017 | CIDRAP
Veterinary groups address H7N9 poultry risk in China
20 Mar 2017 | CIDRAP
Updates and guidelines
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The Global Health Network is celebrating a major milestone in it’s quest to enable life-saving evidence to be gathered in the world’s poorest countries. This is all about a digital platform for medical researchers around the world that is changing ... Read more
Read more about the leadership, steering committee and secretariat of CONSISE by clicking here: read more
Read more about the various CONSISE working groups and their primary objectives by clicking here: read more
These documents were created by members of CONSISE and are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). You can freely copy, adapt ...
One potential obstacle to good antimicrobial prescribing is a lack of knowledge. However, this study from West Bengal in India found that although doctors had good knowledge regarding antibiotic ...
Grounded Theory is used frequently and discussed often by qualitative researchers, and can be a very useful methodology for indepth analysis of data - yet it can be quite confusing ...
Every year, on 31 May, the World Health Organization (WHO) and global partners celebrate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The annual campaign is an opportunity to raise awareness ...
Our colleagues at The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) have published two interesting articles. From their site: Settling the Score: How a Laboratory Network Assessment Tool Can be Used ...
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International Laboratory Comparison of Influenza Microneutralization Assays for A(H1N1)pdm09, A(H3N2), and A(H5N1) Influenza Viruses by CONSISE Karen L. Laurie, Othmar G. Engelhardt, John Wood, Alan Heath ...
Please use this space to introduce yourself to other members of CONSISE.
We adapted the CONSISE household transmission study protocol for use in South Africa and found it incredibly helpful to have the template. Some lessons learned: ...
