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Exercise Hippolytus
Exercise Hippolytus is a program of workshops and exercises addressing EAD outbreaks and animal health laboratories.
A number of national exercises conducted in the past, such as Exercise Minotaur (2002) and Exercise Eleusis (2005), focused on coordination and integration of industry and governments in the response to EADs. Laboratory exercises have also been conducted by a number of state governments and at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory.
The Exercise Hippolytus series will bring these two areas together, and will evaluate and enhance the ability of animal health laboratories to support a national EAD response.
Areas that will be explored in Exercise Hippolytus include:
- Connectivity—how well laboratories interact with each other, clients and EAD managers
- Capability—what laboratories can do during an EAD response, and
- Capacity—how much can laboratories do during an EAD response.
During 2007 and 2008 the exercise program will deliver a series of activities to evaluate and enhance the ability of animal health laboratories to support a national EAD response including:
- a series of national workshops
- a generic laboratory exercise tool called ‘LESTER’
- a stocktake of individual laboratory preparedness
- a sample submission drill, and
- laboratory information management exercise.
Outcomes
An evaluation report on the National EAD Laboratory System Exercise Program can be downloaded below:
Exercise Hippolytus Evaluation Report - 19 July 2007 
PDF [233kb]
