Uganda: Professional Fellowship 2
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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.
University of Edinburgh
3
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
£160,000
Beneficiary Institutions & Fellowships:
Bioinformatics and Sequencing Fellowship – Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
- To strengthen capability on bioinformatics and whole genome sequencing
AMU/C Surveillance Fellowship – Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
- To provide training that will strengthen the Fellow’s ability to support AMU/C surveillance by MAAIF for shrimp production systems and produce evidence of AMU/C practices
- To provide training that will strengthen the Fellow’s ability to improve the accuracy and completeness of AMC data reported by Uganda to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
- To contribute to the sustainability of AMU surveillance in Uganda by training expertise and implementing training programmes
AMR Laboratory Fellowship – Human Health, Arua Regional Referral Hospital
- To train the Fellow in laboratory diagnosis, data recording and interpretation, and laboratory systems which are appropriate to the AMR surveillance system in Uganda
- To train and support the Fellow in the maintenance and use of biorepositories in reference and surveillance laboratories
- To train the Fellow in improved quality control in the laboratory, including supporting training and mentoring activities for others in the surveillance system