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Academy of Sciences (PAS) in collaboration with U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has launched a handbook on "Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Pakistan". pdf version is freely available at: nih.org.pk/wp-content/upl… National Academies

Thomas Drew CMG, the British High Commissioner along with a UK delegation visited the NIH. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen bilateral relationship and technical support to Pakistan with Fleming Fund for capacity building on Antimicrobial Resistance.

I today launched a multi million pound partnership with Pakistan to tackle anti-microbial resistance - one of the biggest and most urgent threats to global health. We’re proud to be working here on it. Many thanks to our partners at the Nat Institute of Health. @PHE_uk Department of Health and Social Care

Delighted to announce the launch of our Pakistan 🇵🇰 Country Grant led by DAI. Thomas Drew visited NIH Pakistan to celebrate the strengthened partnership to improve one-health #AMR surveillance in the country. bit.ly/2m0GCrk

Newly emerging diseases

Pakistan on November 15 became the first country in the world to introduce a new typhoid vaccine in an effort to combat a drug-resistant strain of the potentially fatal disease in the Sindh province. Nick Loman NIH Pakistan #missiontyphoid DTU National Food Institute @WGCengage @WHOPakista

NIH along with WHO and the Government of Balochistan jointly conducted training on COVID-19 Laboratory Diagnostic Methods at Provicinal Public Health Ref Lab FJ Chest Hospital, Quetta.

NIH along with WHO and the Government of Sindh jointly conducted training on "COVID-19 Laboratory Diagnostic Methods" at DOW University of Health Science, OJHA Campus Karachi.

NIH along with WHO and the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa jointly conducted training on COVID-19 laboratory diagnostic methods at Khyber Medical University, Peshawar.

"Launching Ceremony of Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) Pakistan to strengthen country’s capacity in the field of national public health initiative". Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan inaugurated the newly established center at NIH.

#Omicron #DawnNews #WHO Till now no Positive Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 report from Pakistan. We are sequencing Covid positive samples on weakly basic at National Institute of health Pak. Really appreciate Maria Van Kerkhove guidance. Sarah L Baines Zaeem Zia MD-MPH Dr. Rana Muhammad Safdar Dr. Rana Jawad Asghar

Dr Muhammad Salman NIH Pakistan on the scope of pathogen genomics in #Pakistan, how it was utilised during #COVID19 and future opportunities #CentreforPathogenGenomics #globalhealth #publichealth Tim Stinear Benjamin Howden Torsten Seemann Doherty Institute UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

🧬 Exciting milestone! Initiated bacterial WGS at the NIH Pakistan using cutting-edge v14 chemistry on R10.4.1 flow cells. This wouldn't have been possible without invaluable guidance and support from the Benjamin Howden team and CEO NIH.Sarah L Baines Claire Gorrie Louise Judd

Attend the 5th AMR Course–One Health (Nov 11-15, 2024) at Les Pensières, France. Grateful to learn from global experts & connect with 42 minds from 27 countries. Together, we can safeguard our future! 🤝🌐 The Fleming Fund Fondation Mérieux Université Paris Cité

New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autocyc… (1/5)

The past six days have been devastating for APHL and the broader global health community. APHL was forced to make the extremely difficult decision to halt all global public health work supported by the U.S. government, directly affecting over 100 employees. Our work has been

Proud to co-author a study in Scientific Reports on RSV-A dynamics in Pakistan, identifying a P375S mutation & viral introductions. Thanks to Nídia S. Trovão, PhD for key contributions. nature.com/articles/s4159… #Phylodynamics #RSV #Bioinformatics

Completed genomic training at The Francis Crick Institute, July 2025. Discussed library prep & long/short-read sequencing with Zheng Xiang. Mastered bioinformatics tools with Alex Byrne. Explored Bayesian phylogenetics & molecular clocks with Monica Galiano. #Genomics #Bioinformatics #NGS