The Labs for Life (L4L) project, a three year partnership initiative involving the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was launched in 2014. The project aims at improving the quality of laboratory services, effectiveness, and efficiency of public health laboratories under MoHFW.

Through this collaboration, technical assistance will be provided to public health laboratories (attached to secondary and tertiary institutions) to enhance the capacity for quality diagnosis of communicable and non-communicable diseases covering 11 districts from 7 states representing North, South, East, West and North East of India.