Indo-Pacific Health Leaders Series: Dr Bouaphanh Khamphaphongphane, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Laboratory and Epidemiology in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

This is Episode 23 of Contain This, brought to you by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security and is hosted by Australia’s Ambassador for Regional Health Security, Dr Stephanie Williams.

In this installment of the Indo-Pacific Health Leaders Series, Stephanie speaks with  Dr Bouaphanh Khamphaphongphane on the Lao response to COVID-19 response.

Dr Khamphaphongphane is the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Laboratory and Epidemiology in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. She is also a supervisor of the Laos Field Epidemiology Training program and the ASEAN-Australia Health Security Fellowship. During the early days of COVID-19 outbreak, she supervised rapid response teams in provinces to look for suspect cases and worked closely with WHO to conduct COVID-19 testing.

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