Partners and collaborations

For FAO and FAO member countries the FAO Reference Centre for Veterinary Public Health is prepared to

provide reference laboratory services at its facilities in Berlin;
contribute to the improvement of the disease diagnostic capability of national laboratories through training and capacity development, and also by organizing proficiency testing services;
share biological materials and associated information to improve the performance and harmonization of reference laboratory services;
technical expert services by personal visits to the countries and laboratories requested.

FAO Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance at Freie Universität Berlin (established in 2019)
FAO Reference Centre for Influenza in animals and Newcastle disease at the Friedich-Löffler-Institute (FLI) at Riems
Department Biological Safety at the BfR (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) in Germany
FoodBerlin: Collaboration of Universities and Research Institutes in the federal states Berlin and Brandenburg
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research & Training for Health at the Human-Animal-Environment Interface, at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation, Institute of Biometrics, Epidemiology & Information Processing
GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – German Society for International Cooperation)

Serbia: Institute of Meat Hygiene and Technology, Belgrade
The Baltic states: Erasmus Intensive Programme Project “Veterinary Public Health and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases (VPHealth)"
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Denmark together with University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation & Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety Centre for Asia Pacific (VPHCAP) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Chiang Mai University (CMU), Chiang Mai ( Thailand) as our partner in the Joint Master Programme in Veterinary Public Health (MVPH) of the Freie Universität Berlin and CMU