Led by Department of Global Health Professor Robert Martin, I-TECH was recently awarded a three-year Department of Defense(DoD) contract totaling approximately $2.55 million to strengthen public health and clinical laboratories in Cambodia and Laos People’s Democratic Republic. Working with the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific Region, the Cambodian and Lao PDR Ministries of Health, and other partners in Southeast Asia, I-TECH will implement a program to strengthen the quality and clinical utilization of laboratory data and the capacity of national and provincial public health laboratories to conduct effective infectious disease diagnosis and surveillance across the Mekong Delta region.