{
  "abstract": "In the face of complex global health threats—including climate-driven zoonotic spillovers, rising antimicrobial resistance, emerging pathogens and extreme weather events—there is a rising imperative for adaptable and accessible laboratory capacity, particularly in resource-limited settings. In this context, Rapid Response Mobile Laboratories (RRMLs) offer a strategic solution, providing scalable diagnostic surge support across all phases of the health emergency management cycle.1 Unlike stationary laboratories, RRMLs can be swiftly mobilised to deliver services at the point of need, including high-containment diagnostics in hard-to-reach areas. This accelerates turnaround times, enables timely public health interventions and real-time decision-making, improves diagnostic access and helps bridge persistent gaps in fragile health systems. Moreover, RRMLs reinforce outbreak response and disease surveillance, contributing to the development and maintenance of core capacities required under the International Health Regulations (2005).2",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Health Security Division, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark"
      ],
      "name": "Oleg Storozhenko"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia"
      ],
      "name": "Ahmed Albarraq"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), Amman, Jordan"
      ],
      "name": "Tarek Al-Sanouri"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Kym Antonation"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"
      ],
      "name": "Cindi R Corbett"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Laboratory for Urgent Response to Biological Threats, Unit for Environment and Infectious Risks, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France"
      ],
      "name": "Laurent Dacheux"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany",
        "German Center for Infection Research, Hamburg, Germany"
      ],
      "name": "Sophie Duraffour"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medical Department, Médecins Sans Frontières, Barcelona, Spain"
      ],
      "name": "Laurence Flevaud"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Center for Applied Molecular Technologies, UCLouvain and Head of the Belgian Mobile Laboratory B-LiFE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium"
      ],
      "name": "Jean-Luc Gala"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Faculty of Biological and Health Sciences, University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico",
        "School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne VCCC, Parkville, Victoria, Australia"
      ],
      "name": "Michelle M Haby"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Edmund N Newman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "WHO Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization, Lyon, France"
      ],
      "name": "Philomena Raftery"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Emergency Medical Teams Initiative, World Health Organisation, Headquarters, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Flavio Salio"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations - ECHO, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium"
      ],
      "name": "Peter Torda"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for International Health Protection, Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany"
      ],
      "name": "Sabrina Weiss"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Integrating mobile laboratories into global health security: advancing collaboration through GOARN-DiSC",
  "uid": "1ce81676-1112-5e67-b622-9a0e509a2af3"
}