The Australian Society for Parasitology Inc. (ASP) 2020 strategic plan is captured visually in a wheel seen here and summarises:
Why the ASP exists – to Promote Parasitology.
How the ASP Promotes Parasitology – through Education, Communication and Support and recognition and,
What the ASP does is captured by all of the blue segments, Mentoring, Advocacy, Curriculum, Newsletter, Journals, Website, Social media, Awards, Conferences, Courses, Collections and curations, and Outreach.
How does the 2020 ASP Strategic Plan table of actions work?
Each action is associated with one or more “what we do” areas, and in turn each of these areas relate to Education, Communication and Support and Recognition to Promote Parasitology.
Underpinning this strategic plan are ASP members who give their support, expertise, enthusiasm and share their love of parasitology to enable the wheel to keep turning and the ASP to continue to Promote Parasitology. For this Society to function the ASP Constitution needs to be an appropriate set of rules that will guide the ASP into the next decade. Hence a major action out of the 2018 Strategic Planning was a review of the ASP Constitution. The ASP Constitution was rewritten in 2018/2019 to respond to that need. Each 2020 ASP Strategic Plan action should be enacted with the guidance of the 2019 ASP Constitution and By-Laws. The time-frames have been set as continuous (throughout the period of this Strategic Plan 2020 – 2029), short term (within 2 years), medium term (2-5 years) and long term (5-10 years).
