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