The recipient will set up a joint APEIR-MBDS Core Team. Specific roles and responsibilities for individual Core Team members will be identified. The Core Team will precede series of preliminary meetings to formulate the project implementation plan and the preparation for Inception workshop scheduling in April 2014.The Core Team will regularly meet to facilitate the project implementation and support success of the project.
The Recipient will convene Inception workshop in April 2014. The workshop aims to achieve same understanding of the project and agree on the collaboration activities between the 2 networks and within networks. Specifically, the workshop aims to (1) refine the protocols of research in a way that they inform as much as possible the other work being supported by DFATD. The protocols and pathogens (influenza, melioidosis and salmonella) on pages 9-16, are proposed approaches and will be further refined through the inception workshop; and (2) refine the expected outputs and outcomes of the project. This workshop will be held for 2 days with participants from both networks particularly APEIR SC, MBDS Board Members, APEIR CO, MBDS Secretariat and the Project officers that will involve in the project. Representatives from the ASEAN Secretariat, BioDiaspora, the WHO-APL Project for Strengthening laboratory capacity, GPP and IDRC wil also be invited to participate. At the end of the workshop, the project will be launching.
The project will choose and prioritize the cross border sites in Southeast Asia based on density of the traffic, the infrastructure on cross border site (capability on diagnostic) and the history data on the events (outbreak) of the organism of interest.