WHO Collaborating Centre

The World Health Organization (WHO), as an organ of the United Nations (UN), is responsible for improving health standards and social well-being in mankind. To accomplish this goal, WHO selects, names and finances Collaborating Centres in its member states, in consultation with the responsible ministries of the state in which a centre is located. The centres are usually research institute- or university-integrated, whose activities in research, as service providers and in teaching are normally an integral part of the centres.

These areas of work are:

 •  epidemiological monitoring of infectious diseases
 •  standardization in public health
 •  support in developing national health care systems

INSTAND e.V. supports the WHO with the following 4-year plan:

1. Organizing further education courses in quality management, laboratory safety, and quality assurance

2. Developing a WHO document for Laboratory Screening and Monitoring of Diabetes Mellitus

3. Participation in the activities of the WHO Working Group on Anaemia

4. St. Vincent Diabetes Declaration

5. Seminars in developing countries (Cairo)

6.  Continuation and broadening of international interlaboratory comparisons for viral immunology in developing countries, in collaboration with the WHO.

7.  Collaborating with WHO in establishing programs for quality assurance in overseeing viral infection.

8.  Establishing reference methods of the highest reliability for hormones, pharmaca substrates, and ions.

9.  Educating students from developing countries in management and quality assurance in medical laboratories.

Meetings organized by INSTAND e.V. as a WHO Collaborating Centre

Teheran / IRAN
EMRO Regional Intercountry Workshop in Laboratory Medicine
May 10-14, 1997

Rabat / MOROCCO
EMRO Regional Meeting of Directors of Health Laboratory Services
November 16-20, 1998

Muscat / OMAN
EMRO Intercountry Workshop on Quality Assurance in Health Laboratories
December 6-10, 1998

Muscat / OMAN
EMRO Regional Meeting of Directors of Health Laboratories
June 18-22, 2000

Düsseldorf / GERMANY
INSTAND-WHO-Training Course
(IWTC)

1. IWTC - February 24 – March 13, 1997
2. IWTC - March 01 – 18, 1998
3. IWTC - March 15 – 31, 1999
4. IWTC - February 16 – March 02, 2003

INSTAND-WHO-Training Course (IWTC)

Participants:
36 from 27 countries
from EMRO, AFRO,
SEARO and WPRO

Lectures:
21 from INSTAND, WHO
HQs (Prof. C. Heuck) and
EMRO (Dr. El-Nageh)

Subjects:
Quality management,
Good Laboratory Practice,
Internal and external quality assurance,
Accreditation,
Safety in medical laboratories

1. IWTC 24.02 - 13.03.1997 in Düsseldorf