There are a number of organizations which are recognized world-wide for their experience and expertise in the study of infectious pathogens. This section provides a brief summary of each along with links to their sites.

CANADA 

Health Canada Pandemic Plan

Pandemic Planning Checklist

CSCHAH - Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health

NML - National Microbiology Laboratory

http://www.nml-lnm.ca/english/index.html

The Government of Canada's laboratory complex in Winnipeg is the first facility in the world to combine laboratories for human and animal disease research at the highest level of biocontainment.  The facility contains Canada's first Level 4 laboratory, providing the capability to work safely with the most serious human and animal diseases. As Canada’s leading public health infectious disease laboratory, the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) is responsible for the identification, control and prevention of infectious diseases.  The NML is located at the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health, the only facility to have high containment laboratories for human and animal health in one facility. It is recognized as a leading facility in an elite group of 15 centres around the world,  equipped with laboratories ranging from biosafety level 2 to level 4 designed to accommodate the most basic to the most deadly infectious organisms.

USA

CDC - Center for Disease Control

http://www.cdc.gov/page.do/id/0900f3ec80112422

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one of the 13 major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Since it was founded in 1946 to help control malaria, CDC has remained at the forefront of public health efforts to prevent and control infectious and chronic diseases, injuries, workplace hazards, disabilities, and environmental health threats. Today, CDC is globally recognized for conducting research and investigations and for its action oriented approach. CDC applies research and findings to improve people’s daily lives and responds to health emergencies—something that distinguishes CDC from its peer agencies.

International

World Health Organization (W.H.O.)

http://www.who.int/en/

The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

WHO is governed by 192 Member States through the World Health Assembly. The Health Assembly is composed of representatives from WHO's Member States. The main tasks of the World Health Assembly are to approve the WHO programme and the budget for the following biennium and to decide major policy questions.