Tanzania: 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.

Host Institution:

African Society for Laboratory Medicine

Total number of Fellows:

5

Duration:

June 2019 - April 2021

Value:

£480,000

Beneficiary Institutions & Fellowships:

AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at National Health Laboratory & Quality Assurance Training Centre

• 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 Tanzania

AMR Surveillance Fellowship – Animal Health at Tanzania Veterinary Laboratory Agency

• 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 Tanzania

AMR Laboratory Fellowship – Human Health at National Health Laboratory & Quality Assurance Training Centre

• To strengthen One Health AMR surveillance in Tanzania by strengthening the accuracy of pathogen identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing results produced by the NHLQATC and human surveillance sites.

AMU Surveillance Fellowship – Human Health at Pharmaceutical Services Unit

• Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMU practices in hospitals & other healthcare settings
• Work with clinicians to improve 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 & environmental health sectors
• Provide data and results to inform policies or actions regarding responsible AMU to reduce the threat of AMR in Tanzania

AMU Surveillance Fellowship – Animal Health at Directorate of Veterinary Services

• Produce scientifically robust evidence of AMU practices in the livestock production sectors
• Interpret AMU 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 AMU to reduce the threat of AMR in Tanzania
• Strengthen the accuracy and completeness of AMU/AMC data reported by Tanzania to the World Organisation for Animal Health