Introducing the Repository

About the Laboratorium Repository

The ISS-G20 Laboratorium Repository is a website where public health professionals may find news, documents, guidelines, and educational tools which are systematically collected and updated from international authoritative and reliable sources in order to make available to the public health workforce freely available resources previously classified and evaluated for appropriateness in the field of Emergency and Preparedness Response.

The Repository was conceived and supervised by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità as a tool to benefit the community of G20 states and all Low- and Middle-income Countries. The Repository is aimed to offer to the world Public Health Workforce, regardless of their heterogeneous profiles, access to educational resources based on competence-based learning for the development of the skills needed to face the present and future health emergencies.

How Repository Works

The ISS-G20 Laboratorium Repository collects data from different sources, searched and validated daily. The search is done through an automated web search tool. Each item included in the Repository is screened for pertinence and relevance and classified according to different keywords and their type (news, documents, tools…) in different sections of this site and sorted from most recent to oldest. The right side of each page lists tags, which can be used as filters to search through the database.

The following items can be selected: "Topic," "Language," "Target," "Type," "Resources," and "Search."

"Topic" you can find all the items labeled by their content; in "Language" topics are categorized by language. The "Target" page is intended to filter all resources by the profile of the user it is intended for. You can select the documents according to their needs, either as General Public or HealthCare Workforce (HCW). In HCW the user can find subclasses such as "HCW Technical Staff," "Hospital/LTCF," "Non-HCW Technical Professionals," "Primary Care," and "Public Health." Based on your choice you will be directed to the most appropriate contents. Under "Type," the resources are categorized by content type.

Under the tag "Resources" you may access and search directly the websites from which the Repository sorts its items.

From the search page you can also refine your search by selecting multiple tags and keywords.

The Laboratorium Repository is a continuously expanding website and a rapidly growing number of documents and tools will be available over time. Presently, most of the available documents are in English, but in some cases, they are available in a range of different languages on the source website. Prospectively, keywords and research strings in other languages will be available.

Tag definition

Below you can find a list defining the tags used:

Topic:

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)	Content related to antibiotic resistance (AMR)
Assistance	Content related to linkage to care of patients or clinical pathways
Basic science	Content related to basic sciences, useful for understanding the topic
Climate Change	Content related to climate change and related conditions
Clinical Management	Content related to therapeutic indications and recommendations in the management of a disease in a patient
Communication	Content related to communication methods within the emergency context
COVID-19	Content referable to SARS-CoV-2 infection and respective disease
Laboratory Management	Content related to diagnostic laboratory management procedures
Digital Health	Content related to digital technologies applied in the fields of public health and healthcare
Education	Content related to the training and continuing education of the healthcare workers
Emergency	Content referable to an emergency public health condition
Emerging Diseases	Content referable to emerging diseases
Environment	Content referring to environment
Epidemiology/Statistics	Content related to epidemiological and statistical data
Health technology	Content referable to health-related technology
HIV	Content related to HIV and HIV-infected populations
Hospital management	Content related to hospital management in a emergency condition
Influenza	Content referable to flu
Infectious Diseases	Content referable to infectious diseases not already labelled
Microbiology	Content referable to microbiological technical details
Migrants	Content related to migrant populations
Minority groups	Minority-related content (e.g. specific ethnicity, language, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity)
One Health	Content related to the approach based on the integration of human, environmental and animal health
Outbreak	Content referable to an epidemic condition
Policy	Content related to policies, laws and advocacy documents
Preparedness	Content related to emergency preparedness
Prevention	Content related to prevention of emergency events and prevention of populations at risk from certain events
Surveillance	Content related to disease surveillance
Tuberculosis	Content referable to tuberculosis
Travellers	Content related to travellers from potential health risk areas
Vaccine	Content related to vaccinations, those of diseases potentially capable of triggering outbreaks and outbreaks
Workforce	Content related to the development or readjustment of human resources available in the health and para-health care sector

Target:

General public	Content referring to a general citizen, not competent in the health sector
Non-HCW technical professionals	Content related to a non-health audience that is, however, relevant to and potentially interferes with topics of health interest (e.g. policymaker, shipboard operator noting a case of infectious disease)
Hospital/LTCF	Content related to health professionals whose occupation is in hospital or residential care facilities
Public Health	Content related to public health worker
Primary care	Content related to health professionals whose occupation is territorial/associated with primary care
HCW Technical staff	Content related to health professionals with special technical competence (e.g. laboratory technician, radiology technician...)

Typology:

Activities/Initiatives/Planning	Planned and ongoing initiatives
Books/Handbooks	Manuals and books
Call for action/Applications	Calls and proposals for participation
Checklists	Tables and checklists for carrying out certain checks
Courses	Training Courses
Dictionaries/Glossaries	Dictionaries and glossaries useful for understanding content
Guidelines/Recommendations/Technical Instructions	Guidelines and recommendations, combined with operational
Informative materials/FAQs	instructions
Journal papers/Reviews	Information Materials and Frequently Asked Questions
Multimedia	Publications in scientific journals
News and updates	Webinars, Serious Games, Videos, Infogrphics, MOOCs
Outbreak data	Real-time updates and news
Overviews/Frameworks	Epidemiological data relating to one or more diseases
Policies/Laws	Dealing with a given topic from multiple aspects
Reports	Laws and policies, advocacy documents
Repositories	Meeting summary documents
Scientific updates	Website collecting multiple contents on one or more topics
Statements	Guideline, Recommendation and Regulatory Updates
Statistical data	Statements and public speeches
Tools	Statistical data related to a specific topic

Country:

Africa	Content referable to and of potential interest for Africa
Canada	Content reportable and of potential interest to Canada
Caribbean	Content reportable and of potential interest to Caribbean
Central America	Content reportable and of potential interest to Central America
China	Related content of potential interest to China
Europe and UK	Content reportable and of potential interest to the European continent
India	Related content of potential interest to India
Indochina	Content referable and of potential interest to Indochina
Middle East	Related content of potential interest to the Middle East
Oceania	Content referable and of potential interest to Oceania
Singapore	Reportable content of potential interest to Singapore
South America	Content reportable and of potential interest to South America
South Pacific	Content reportable and of potential interest to South Pacific
USA	Content reportable and of potential interest to the USA

Language:

English	Content reported in English
Italian	Content reported in Italian
French	Content reported in French
Portuguese	Content reported in Portuguese
Spanish	Content reported in Spanish
Chinese	Content reported in Chinese
Russian	Content reported in Russian