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A novel influenza A (H1N1) virus detected in April 2009 rapidly spread around the world. North American provincial and state laboratories have well-defined roles and responsibilities, including providing accurate, timely test results for patients and information for regional public health and other decision makers. We used the multidisciplinary response and rapid implementation of process changes based on Lean methods at the provincial public health laboratory in British Columbia, Canada, to improve laboratory surge capacity in the 2009 influenza pandemic. Observed and computer simulating evaluation results from rapid processes changes showed that use of Lean tools successfully expanded surge capacity, which enabled response to the 10-fold increase in testing demands.
Pubmed ID: 22257385
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Core facility that provides the following services: RNA extraction, Immunofluoresence assay, Dendritic cell immunophenotyping, ELISA, Polymerase chain reaction service, Florescence activated cell sorting service, Western blot analysis service. Research interests include: immunogenicity and protective efficacy of multi-clade consensus ENV SHIV virus-like particle vaccine, cellular innate activation as a tactic to prevent HIV-1 transmission, molecular changes after serial DV infections in macaques, and immunization of rhesus macaques with a dengue vaccine candidate based on a Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE) replicon vector.
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