Ghana: Professional Fellowship
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.
Technical University of Denmark
3
October 2018 - April 2020
£240,000
Beneficiary Institutions & Fellowships:
AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at Ghana Health Services
- 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 Ghana
AMR Surveillance Fellowship - Animal Health at Veterinary Services Dept, Public Health Department
- 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
- To inform policies or actions to reduce the incidence of AMR in Ghana
Laboratory Fellowship – Animal Health at National Food Safety Laboratory
- Strengthen One Health AMR surveillance in Ghana by strengthening the accuracy of pathogen identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing results by the Food Safety Laboratory and the Regional Veterinary Laboratories participating in AMR surveillance
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
3
October 2018 - July 2020
£237,039
Beneficiary Institutions & Fellowships:
Laboratory Fellowship – Human Health at Dept of Medical Microbiology, University of Ghana
- Strengthen One Health AMR surveillance in Ghana by strengthening the accuracy of pathogen identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing results produced by the UoG and the human surveillance sites.
AMU Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at Food and Drugs Authority
- Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMU practices in hospitals and other healthcare settings
- Work with clinicians to promote data use in changing antibiotic prescribing practices
- Interpret AMU surveillance data together with evidence from AMR surveillance to inform future AMR and AMU surveillance priorities within the human, animal and environmental health sectors
- Provide data and results to inform policies or actions regarding responsible AMU to reduce the threat of AMR in Ghana
AMU Surveillance Fellowship – Animal Health at Veterinary Services Dept, Public Health Department
- Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMU patterns in livestock production sectors, including fisheries where relevant
- Interpret this together with AMU and AMR results from other sectors to inform future surveillance priorities within the human, animal and environmental health sectors
- Provide data and results to inform policies or actions regarding responsible AMU to reduce the threat of AMR in Ghana
- Strengthen the accuracy and completeness of AMU data reported by Ghana to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)