BENEFITS

  1. Expertise and support

  2. Quality Improvement

  3. Negotiating Power and Funding Prospects

  4. Expertise and support

  5. Image and Profile

  6. Strategic Capability

 

EXpertise and support

  • Opportunity to network with a wide range of groups that have an interest in preventing pandemics

  • Provide access to specialists through our working groups, forums, and events, building on expertise from around the world

  • Support for facilitation of national consultations and capacity building sessions

  • A practical and flexible approach based on service, equity, partnership, equal participation and measurable performance

Quality Improvement

  • Access to best practice for virus discovery and surveillance, ensuring quality control and operational standards are implemented and maintained

  • Encourages the sharing of expertise and good practice

  • Facilitates the joint delivery of services and activities

Negotiating Power and Funding Prospects

  • Form a collective voice for credible public health advocacy through increased scale and capacity

  • Fosters greater gravitas to shape national and international thinking and policy

  • Increases the prospects of winning tenders and securing funding

  • Creates a single, unified point of contracting, and in so doing increases attractiveness to contractors and funders

Image and Profile

  • Extends and heightens public profiles of consortium organizations

Resource Use

  • Free up organizations to maintain, consolidate and enhance their core focus on frontline delivery of activities, by providing administrative and bureaucratic support via a centralized hub

  • Access to approaches, services, protocols and tools for virus detection and pandemic prevention

  • Tailored support and training to design and conduct field and laboratory virus surveillance

  • Advice for the development of policy frameworks

  • Tools for communicating research to shape policy and practice

Strategic Capability

  • Establishes more concerted and sustainable research and development capacity through hub infrastructure, resulting in greater focus on innovation and new ways of working

  • Enables joint needs assessment and program planning to be undertaken

Resource Use

  • Opportunity to network with a wide range of groups that have an interest in preventing pandemics

  • Provide access to specialists through our working groups, forums, and events, building on expertise from around the world

  • Support for facilitation of national consultations and capacity building sessions

  • A practical and flexible approach based on service, equity, partnership, equal participation and measurable performance