"A strategic training and research hub for fellowships in epidemiology, public, animal and environmental health for Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond"
Our Mission
To scale-up antimicrobial stewardship efforts towards Africa's developmental agenda through research, information, education and training initiatives that seek to empower individuals and communities to live sustainable and healthy lives, so they can achieve their full potentials. With the proliferation and misuse of drugs and over-the-counter-medications, coupled with the re-emergence of traditional medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa, the antimicrobial resistance challenge has been exacerbated, we are determined to provide optimal and evidence-based solutions to bridge the gap.
Our Vision
Our Values
- Collaboration
- Respect
- Equity
- Diversity
- Evidence-based science
- Sustainability
Our Objectives
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a complex and contemporary problem that affects every society. Therefore, a coordinated approach must be used to address the challenges it brings both at the individual, local, national, continental and global levels.
Our Centre of Excellence will pioneer novel approaches and optimize existing interventions to combat AMR through a collaborative agenda involving experts in the fields of microbiology, epidemiology, data science and analytics, social anthropology, public health, risk management and community engagement, scientific leadership, incident management systems, environmental protection and biodiversity, immunizations and biomanufacturing, veterinary medicine, and implementation research.
Our overarching aims are to:
Provide high quality training on how to generate evidence-based alternatives through the collection, collating, analyses and reporting data on human AMR, veterinary-associated AMR, and environmental AMR that have too often been assessed individually.
Develop human capacity with leadership skills on how to connect these data with state-of-the-art trainings for a systematic and comprehensive understanding of the process in scientific research and the arts of publishing.
Promote the training of trainers for sustainable and transformational leadership on how to conduct integrative data analysis on the identification of genetic, phenotypic, environmental and socio-demographic characteristics as well as pathways driving the AMR hurdle.