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cord-006204-grjrf1n5	Ihekweazu, Chikwe	A North/South collaboration between two national public health institutes – A model for global health protection	2015-01-08		.txt	text/plain	3425	183	42	We describe how a collaboration between the NPHIs of England and South Africa built a mutually beneficial professional relationship to help implement the WHO International Health Regulations, build capacity for health protection, and promote the exchange of information, advice, and expertise. NPHIs generally lead disease surveillance and outbreak investigations, provide reference laboratory services (specialist diagnostic services for rare organisms and confirmatory tests requiring specialised infrastructure and resources), and advise their governments on development and evaluation of interventions in public health. • executing specific epidemiology projects, • building epidemiological capacity at NICD, • supporting short-term HPA/PHE secondees visiting each institute, • providing, by the senior HPA/PHE epidemiologist, public health leadership within NICD, 3. Management expertise advanced when senior members of NICD staff spent shorter periods (1-2 weeks) with HPA/PHE counterparts in the UK exchanging ideas on management approaches in specific areas of work and exploring ideas for collaborative projects.	./cache/cord-006204-grjrf1n5.txt	./txt/cord-006204-grjrf1n5.txt