The African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) invites qualified professionals to apply to serve as Expert Abstract Reviewers for the ASLM 2026 Biennial Conference. Reviewers will play a critical role in ensuring a high‑quality, credible, and impactful scientific programme for this flagship continental event.
Reviewers will be matched to abstracts aligned with one or more of the following tracks:
Focus: Integrated laboratory systems and networks as enablers for clinic and public health decision making at all levels of care, preparedness infrastructure for endemic, communicable and non‑communicable diseases, and cross‑border health threats.
Focus: Strengthening diagnostic systems for AMR detection, surveillance, and response to support implementation of global and national AMR action plans and advance commitments under the 2024 UN High-Level Declaration on AMR and upcoming 2026 ministerial processes.
Focus: Advancing pathogen genomics as a routine diagnostic and surveillance tool for epidemic intelligence, outbreak detection, and integrated health security systems across Africa.
Focus: Sustainable financing as the core systems enabler—linking market shaping, regional diagnostic manufacturing, leadership, and workforce capacity to build resilient, country‑owned diagnostic systems for health security.
Focus: Digital transformation of diagnostics through AI-driven tools, use cases, interoperable data systems, and advanced analytics.
Focus: Strengthening people centered, partnership driven diagnostic ecosystems by building trust, social adoption, and sustainable collaboration across communities, clinicians, civil society, industry and media- ensuring diagnostic services are used, trusted and equitably accessed.
Focus: Building environmentally responsible, climate-resilient laboratory systems that strengthen long-term health security.
Reviewer participation is voluntary. Reviewers will be awarded a certificate of recognition in appreciation of their contribution.
The reviews will be conducted through an online platform
Reviewer participation is voluntary. Reviewers will be awarded a certificate of recognition in appreciation of their contribution.
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