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Major International Consultancies

Clinical and Statewide Services' professional staff regularly interact with their counterparts throughout the world, and are often called upon to deliver specialised consultancy services for specific advisory situations. Clinical and Statewide Services' staff are also adept at organising specialised workshops for scientific professionals.

Consultancies and workshops are available in all areas relevant to Clinical and Statewide Services' broad suite of scientific, diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines.

Consultancies

Abbreviations
AAECP - ASEAN-Australia Economic Cooperation Program	ACIAR - Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
APEC - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation	APFAN - Asia Pacific Food Analysis Network
WHO - World Health Organisation

Institutional Strengthening of the Asia Pacific and Indonesia Food Analysis Networks (Indonesia and Australia, 2001). Funded through AusAID’s APEC Support Program, Round 17.
Assistance to the National Laboratory for Food and Water Safety (Mozambique, 2001). Scope included Laboratory audits against ISO Guide 17025, training workshops on Quality Systems, and proposals for further funding under M-A CBP. Funded through AusAID’s Mozambique/Australia Capacity Building Program (MACBP).
Feasibility study to develop a business strategy to optimise the commercial sustainability of the Papua New Guinea National Agricultural Chemistry Laboratory (Papua New Guinea, 1999). Funded by ACIAR.
Analytical Quality Assurance in Food Laboratories in Indonesia (Indonesia, Thailand 1997/98/99). Funded by AusAID/AAECP.
Evaluation, consulting & training in Malaria microscopic diagnoses. (Papua New Guinea, 1998). Funded by BP.
Food Contamination Training (Indonesia, 1998). Funded by WHO.
Psychotropic Drugs Training (Indonesia, 1998). Funded by WHO.
Audit of environmental monitoring, design of new environmental laboratory, Emperor Gold Mines, Vatakoula. (Fiji, 1996). Funded by Sinclair Knight Merz.
Equipment maintenance and trouble shooting (Indonesia, 1993). Funded by AusAID, Australia Indonesia Institute.
Leptospirosis training of scientists from Veterinary Research Institute, Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka, 1993). Funded by WHO.
Equipment maintenance and trouble shooting (Indonesia, 1992). Funded by APFAN.

Asia Pacific Food Analysis Network - APFAN

The concept of APFAN was first discussed 1989 by Mr Graham Craven (Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services), A/Professor Barry Noller (currently with the National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology ), Dr Howard Bradbury (Australian National University). Funding was initially sought and obtained from organisations such as the Crawford Fund, AusAID, and the International Foundation for Science.

The first conference was held in Malaysia, in 1990, and the first analytical workshop on food composition and analysis was convened in Brisbane in 1991.

Scientists for this first Workshop came from Fiji, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Australia

Forensic and Scientific Services has participated in the following international APFAN Conferences:

Thailand (1997)
Philippines (1995)
Malaysia (1992)

Forensic and Scientific Services has hosted APFAN Workshops in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, with guests from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Zimbabwe.

Last Updated: 13 July 2007
Last Reviewed: 03 January 2007

Queensland Health Clinical and Statewide Services (CaSS)

Major International Consultancies

Consultancies

Asia Pacific Food Analysis Network - APFAN