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Training Programme 📅 January 20-23, 2026

ICAR-NIVEDI Conducts National One Health Laboratory Training on Brucellosis and Leptospirosis Surveillance

Four-day intensive programme strengthens integrated surveillance and diagnostic capacity across veterinary and human health sectors under AINP-OH framework

Staff Reporter Bengaluru

The ICAR-National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology & Disease Informatics (ICAR-NIVEDI), Bengaluru, successfully organized a four-day national laboratory training programme under the All-India Network Programme on One Health (AINP-OH) from 20-23 January 2026. The programme, titled "Strengthening One Health Surveillance, Epidemiology and Sampling Strategies for Brucellosis and Leptospirosis," focused on harmonising sampling protocols, diagnostic algorithms, and laboratory workflows across participating units.

Programme Highlights

The training included focused technical lectures, interactive sessions, and extensive hands-on laboratory training. Key areas covered laboratory biosafety and biosecurity, sampling strategies at the human-animal interface, One Health spatial mapping, and field-to-laboratory diagnostic workflows.

Participants received practical exposure to serological assays, DNA extraction, PCR and real-time PCR, along with culture, isolation and maintenance of Leptospira, MAT/LAT, dark-field microscopy, and RT-PCR-based diagnostics. The comprehensive hands-on approach ensured that participating units could adopt standardised protocols across the entire diagnostic pipeline.

"Strengthening One Health surveillance requires uniform sampling strategies, standardised diagnostics, and integration of livestock, human, and environmental data to support evidence-based disease control."
— Dr. Baldev R. Gulati, Director, ICAR-NIVEDI

Dr. Rajeswari Shome, Training Coordinator, highlighted the programme's practical orientation, stating that the training was designed with a strong hands-on focus to ensure that participating units adopt harmonised protocols—right from biosafety and sampling to advanced molecular diagnostics—under the AINP-OH framework.

Call for Integrated Surveillance Beyond Sectoral Silos

The programme concluded with a valedictory session chaired by Dr. Divakar Hemadri, ADG (Animal Health), ICAR, who underscored that One Health programmes must move beyond sector-wise functioning. He emphasised that the true focus of such initiatives should be on studying diseases at the livestock-environment-human interface, rather than addressing animal or human health in isolation, and called for dismantling siloed approaches through integrated surveillance, diagnostics, and reporting.

Programme Outcomes

Following pre- and post-training evaluations, training certificates were awarded. Eleven participants from seven units, representing both veterinary and human health sectors, participated—strengthening national capacity for integrated surveillance and response to brucellosis and leptospirosis.

Photo Gallery

Laboratory training session — Participants engaged in hands-on laboratory training on molecular diagnostic techniques for brucellosis and leptospirosis detection. Click to view full size

Director addressing participants — Group photograph of participants and resource persons during the Four-Day One Health Laboratory Training Program organized at ICAR-NIVEDI, Bengaluru (January 2026). Click to view full size

Valedictory session group photo — Valedictory session and certificate distribution to participants of the One Health Laboratory Training Program at ICAR-NIVEDI. Click to view full size