Navin Karan

Background

About Navin Karan

I am a Senior Medical Scientist, and Training and Capacity Manager, currently working for the Victorian Infectious Diseases Laboratory (VIDRL). I am also a co-lead of the Public Health Cross Cutting Discipline at the Doherty Institute and an Honorary Fellow at the Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne (UoM). I am currently a member of the UoM Centre for Pathogen Genomics Training working group, Doherty Institute's Global Health Capacity and Capability Building Steering Committee and VIDRL's Regional and Global Health Steering Committee. I have extensive experience working with developing nations, strengthening laboratory systems to improve diagnostic and public health services through provision of technical training and advise to regional agencies, partner organisations and country Ministries of Health. My area of work has included consultancies in medical laboratory education, capacity building and training, laboratory quality management and accreditation, external quality assurance programmes, emerging infectious diseases, clinical microbiology and antimicrobial resistance, TB/HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, transfusion transmitted infections, molecular infectious diseases testing and turn-key container laboratories in the context of global and regional health. I am an expert advisor on laboratory systems and capacity building for the Asia-Pacific region.