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Training Programs
Making the world a safer place
The National Biosafety & Biocontainment Training Program (NBBTP) is helping to make the world a safer place. More than 600 biosafety professionals throughout Asia will receive highly-specialized biosafety and biocontainment skill development thanks to the premier of the Train the Trainer program at April 2008 Asia-Pacific Biosafety Association (A-PBA) annual meeting.
World Health Organization (WHO) and NBBTP officials combined resources to deliver this premier program designed to teach biosafety professionals how to further instruct laboratory works and first responders how to safely handle biohazardous materials. The program, sponsored by the A-PBA to promote biological safety and facilitate the sharing of biosafety information, included lecturers’ notes, outlines and slides, case studies, laboratory exercises and demonstrations, supplemental materials and a study guide. The curriculum met the strict standards of the International Association for Continuing Education and Training and was approved for CEUs.
NBBTP subject matter experts and curriculum developers worked with the WHO biosafety advisory board to develop the Train the Trainer Manual to enforce three biosafety imperatives:
- Good laboratory practices and techniques provide the greatest contribution to laboratory safety;
- Appropriate training programs should be instituted at regional and local levels for biosafety trainers and laboratory workers;
- A sustainable biosafety training network should be established globally to help ensure that appropriate biosafety practices and procedures are used in laboratories worldwide.
Instructors from seven world-wide organizations, including the WHO, A-PBA, Ministry of Health Singapore, REDI Center, NBBTP, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and TLL trained participants from seven Southeast Asian countries on 27 biosafety modules. The NBBTP translated and provided A-PBA delegates copies of the Train the Trainer manual translated into Mandarin Chinese. The program is now being translated by course participants into Vietnamese and Basra.
Participants from Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam took part in the program, which was accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and taught by some of the world’s leading experts on biosafety and biocontainment: Debra Hunt, Dr.PH, SM (NRM), CBSP; Murray Cohen, Ph.D., MPH, CIH; Jennifer Gaudioso, Ph.D.; Theodore Traum, P.E.; and Thomas Arminio, RN, MPH, SM (NRM), CBSP.
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