Switzerland Global Laboratory Tender

The Global Laboratory Leadership Programme GLLP is a unique workforce development initiative with the goal to foster and mentor current and emerging laboratory leaders to build strengthen and sustain national laboratory systems. The initiative is led by six international Partners the Association of Public Health Laboratories APHL the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ECDC the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO the World Organisation for Animal Health OIE and the World Health Organization WHO committed to their mission to provide laboratory professionals with the tools necessary to develop their laboratory leadership competencies and advance effective national laboratory systems for improved health security using a One Health approach.In March 2019 the Partners published the first product the Laboratory Leadership Competency Framework which outlined the essential competencies needed for laboratory leaders to build sustainable national laboratory systems that improve disease detection control and prevention efforts in health systems around the world. Now in the pivotal next stage of the programmes development the Partners have released the GLLP Learning Package - a suite of tools information and resources to plan develop implement and evaluate a laboratory leadership programme in any region country or educational institution in the world.The GLLP Learning Package hosted on the WHO Health Security Learning Platform HSLP includes a GLLP Planning and Implementation Guide MentorshipGuideand virtual and in-person course materialsincludingPowerPoint presentations and instructor and participant guides. The materials are organized into four primary sections - Introduction Laboratory Management Laboratory Leadership and Laboratory Systems - with more than 200 contact hours worth of content. Theprogramme is flexible in length formatand contentand may be adapted to meet country-specific workforce needs. More than 140 contributors from the Human Health Animal Health and Environmental Health sectors participated in the development revision or review of the Package.Access to the full set of course materials will initially be restricted as the Partners continue to refine the Learning Package based on feedback before releasing for public use. Upon motivated request access to the modules can be granted to organizations planning to use the GLLP materials for a traininglearning activity.