Enhancing Australia's National Public Health Laboratory Capacity and Capability

Overview

This grant opportunity will run over four years from 2025-26 to 2028-29. Public health laboratories or laboratory related capacity and capability building activities are funded through this grant opportunity. There are three funding streams available under this grant opportunity: Stream 1: World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza (WHO Collaborating Centre) Stream 2: National High Security Quarantine Laboratory Stream 3: Quality Assurance Program for High-Risk Biological Agents  The shared objectives of the three streams include: ensuring specialised Australia’s national public health laboratories have capacity and capability to detect, identify and analyse biological agents of security concern or which pose a serious communicable disease risk, is maintained and available within Australia, and capability to rapidly detect and identify such agents ensures that Australia will be able to implement appropriate response measures to minimise the impact on affected communities and the health system. The shared outcome of the three streams include: Australia has ready access to specialised laboratory capacity and capability for the secure detection, identification and analysis of biological agents of security concern that pose a serious communicable disease risk.   NOTE: Please refer to the most recent version of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines and Addendum (Version 2) published on 17 July 2025. To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.