African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) – ASLM Academy
CPD Standards Office Provider Number: PDCD1122
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Category: Education & Training Centres, Health & Safety, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Leadership and Management
Description:
Providing structured professional development, training, and certification programmes in laboratory medicine, diagnostics, public health, and health systems strengthening.
ASLM Academy delivers online courses, live and recorded webinars, blended learning programmes, and face-to-face trainings designed to strengthen the competence of laboratory professionals, clinicians, public health practitioners, and health programme implementers. Our learning activities support improved diagnostic quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and workforce readiness across priority health programmes including HIV, TB, AMR, biosafety and biosecurity, genomics, laboratory mapping, quality management systems (QMS), leadership development, internship and early-career workforce support, and outbreak preparedness.
Evolving technologies, quality standards, and disease priorities require health professionals to regularly update their skills. Well-structured CPD activities enable practitioners to correctly implement diagnostics, apply quality management systems, interpret results reliably, utilise laboratory mapping and data for planning and referral systems, engage in leadership and management roles, and support timely clinical and public health decision-making.
ASLM Academy is the training and workforce development arm of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine. We work in collaboration with Ministries of Health, national public health institutes, implementing partners, continental and global health organisations to deliver scalable, standardised learning. Training is delivered through a self placed digital learning platform or complemented by instructor-led workshops, internship-linked learning pathways, expert-led webinars, and face to face trainings allowing professionals to access learning regardless of location.
ASLM Academy is currently applying for CPD accreditation to formally recognise its courses, trainings, learning activities, and webinar series for CPD credit, ensuring learners receive verifiable, quality-assured professional development aligned with international standards and national workforce needs.
Learning Management System – https://lms.aslmacademy.org/
Accredited Activities:
This provider is currently undergoing accreditation.
Who Should Attend:
These courses, trainings, and webinars are designed for: Laboratory professionals and technologists seeking to maintain and enhance professional competence in leadership, diagnostics, quality management systems, biosafety and biosecurity, laboratory mapping, and emerging areas such as genomics and advanced testing technologies. Clinicians and nurses involved in point-of-care testing, specimen collection, referral, and diagnostic decision-making, particularly within HIV, TB, AMR, and other priority disease programmes. Public health practitioners and programme officers working in disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and response, laboratory systems strengthening, and the use of diagnostic data to inform public health action and policy. Laboratory managers, quality officers, and supervisors responsible for implementing and sustaining quality management systems, laboratory accreditation processes (including ISO 15189), external quality assessment (EQA), and continuous improvement initiatives. Trainers, mentors, and programme staff involved in national and facility-level capacity building, Training-of-Trainers programmes, internship and early-career workforce development, and the scale-up of laboratory and diagnostic services. Participants benefit from practical, context-relevant learning delivered by subject-matter experts through flexible online, blended, and in-person formats. Once CPD accreditation is finalised, learners will also benefit from recognised CPD credits that support professional registration requirements, career progression, leadership development, and improved quality of health service delivery.