Laos: 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.
Mahidol University
5
May 2019 - February 2021
£400,000
Beneficiary Institutions & Fellowships:
AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology
- Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMR patterns in human bacterial infections from disease out-break and 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 Laos
AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at Department of Communicable 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 Laos
AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Animal Health at Division of Veterinary Services (DVS), Epidemiology Unit
- 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 Laos
Laboratory Fellowship – Human Health at National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology
- Strengthen One Health AMR surveillance in Laos by improving the accuracy of pathogen identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing results produced by the human surveillance sites
AMU Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at Setthathirath Hospital
- 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 information to inform policies or actions regarding responsible AMU to reduce the threat of AMR in Laos