Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

CLSI promotes the development and use of voluntary laboratory consensus standards and guidelines within the health care community.

CLSI's core focus is the development of globally applicable voluntary consensus standards and guidelines for the clinical laboratory.

Volunteers and mentors also collaborate with CLSI's Global Health Partnerships to help establish laboratory quality management systems in resource-limited countries.

With grants from the US-based PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program administered by a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), CLSI has been actively involved in improving essential laboratory services.

CLSI has provided technical assistance in Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zambia.

Brochure for the 1977 Conference on a National Understanding for the Development of Reference Methods and Materials for Clinical Chemistry