Integrating mobile laboratories into global health security: advancing collaboration through GOARN-DiSC
Summary box Rapid Response Mobile Laboratories (RRMLs) provide deployable, adaptable and scalable diagnostic surge capacity in all types of health emergencies, enhancing outbreak response, surveillance and International Health Regulations (2005) core capacities, especially in resource-limited settings.
Authors
- Péter Torda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0087-6518)
- Kym Antonation (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9264-7312)
- Oleg Storozhenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4967-0190)
- Sabrina Weiß (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4835-3695)
- Cindi R. Corbett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4158-1799)
- Laurent Dacheux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4401-3706)
- Philomena Raftery (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2683-7154)
- Sophie Duraffour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1239-4372)
- Tarek Alsanouri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1523-6695)
- Edmund Newman
- Laurence Flévaud
- Jean‐Luc Gala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7749-573X)
- Michelle M. Haby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6203-9195)
- Ahmed Albarraq
- Flavio Salio
Institutions
- World Health Organization - Pakistan (PK)
- Institut Pasteur (FR)
- Public Health Agency of Canada (CA)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Robert Koch Institute (DE)
- European Commission (BE)
- Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (BE)
- Universidad de Sonora (MX)
- Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (JO)
- World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (DK)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- German Center for Infection Research (DE)
- Public Health Agency (GB)
- Médecins Sans Frontières (ES)
- World Health Organization - Lyon Office (FR)
- Melbourne Health (AU)
- Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (DE)
- UCLouvain (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ Global Health
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2025-022083
- Primary Topic
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00