Bhutan: Professional Fellowship
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The Professional Fellowship scheme aims to support the professional development of key practitioners in Fleming Fund countries, in both human health and animal health sectors, who play an important role in implementing AMR and AMU surveillance. The scheme will provide training, coaching and mentoring to improve fellows' skills and leadership capacity in gathering quality AMR diagnostic data, AMR and AMU data collection and management, analysis and use of surveillance results.
Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne
7
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
£560,000
Beneficiary Institutions & Fellowships:
AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at Royal Centre for Disease Control
- Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMR patterns in human bacterial infections from AMR surveillance data
- Interpret this together with evidence from other sectors to inform future surveillance priorities within the human, animal and environmental health sectors
- Inform policies or actions to reduce the incidence of AMR in Bhutan
AMR Laboratory Fellowship – Human Health at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital
- To strengthen One Health AMR surveillance in Bhutan by strengthening the accuracy of pathogen identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing results produced by the JDWNRH and associated human health laboratories.
AMC Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital
- Compile and keep up to date with information on antibiotic distribution and consumption in hospitals and public healthcare facilities in Bhutan
- Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMC practices in hospitals & other healthcare settings
- Interpret AMC and AMU surveillance data together with evidence from AMR surveillance to in-form future AMC, AMU and AMR surveillance priorities within the human, animal & environmental health sectors
- Provide data and results to inform policies or actions regarding responsible AMC to reduce the threat of AMR in Bhutan
AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Animal Health at National Centre for Animal Health
- Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMR patterns in animals from AMR surveillance data
- Interpret this together with evidence from other sectors to inform future surveillance priorities within the human, animal and environmental health sectors
- Inform policies or actions to reduce the incidence of AMR in Bhutan
AMR Laboratory Fellowship – Animal Health at National Veterinary Laboratory, National Centre for Animal Health
- To strengthen One Health AMR surveillance in Bhutan by strengthening the accuracy of pathogen identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing results produced by National Veterinary Laboratory , the National Food Testing Laboratory and selected regional laboratories.
AMC/U Surveillance Fellowship – Animal Health at National Centre for Animal Health
- Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMC/U practices in poultry and livestock production
- Interpret AMC/U and AMR surveillance data together to inform future surveillance priorities within the human, animal & environmental health sectors
- Provide data and results to inform policies or actions regarding responsible AMC/U to reduce the threat of AMR in Bhutan
- Strengthen the accuracy and completeness of AMC/U data reported by Bhutan to the World Organisation for Animal Health
Other grants
Country Grant › Bhutan