Second, leadership, cooperation, and partnership guide the process, develop harmonized tools and training, and help allocate resources effectively [ 48].
While surveys administered by different agencies and in different countries usually contained similar types of questions, they were far from harmonized tools.
Harmonizing ELSI tools across these members and countries will not be simple.
Harmonizing the tools and models of toxicological risk assessment with those of epidemiological risk assessment, and reconciling their data and results, should facilitate the development of better approaches for background and variability descriptions in NexGen human health risk assessments.
Unfortunately, progress in developing, validating, and harmonizing such tools has been limited, despite the urgent need for them in microbicide and other areas of basic, translational, and clinical research [ 14, 15, 16].
Also during this first phase, the networks identified priority diseases and clarified disease definitions; harmonized reporting tools; prepared joint outbreak investigations; and disseminated information through network publications.
The objective of this paper is to share experience and provide updated information on Capacity Development in the Central and Eastern Europe/Balkan Countries (CEE/BC) region relevant to public health nutrition, particularly in creation of food composition databases (FCDBs), applying dietary intake assessment and monitoring tools, and harmonizing methodology for nutrition surveillance.
WHO Guidelines were recognized by the workshop participants as a tool for harmonizing regulatory requirements worldwide.
The PPE competency assessment method was found to be a useful tool in harmonizing the training provided with actual performance in clinical practice.
IGB informatics harmonizes with UCSC tools; users can populate a Quickload server using data from the UCSC Table Browser.
