JPIAMR 2022 Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for network
• Organisation: Robert Koch Institute, germany/Bayero University Kano
• Country: Nigeria (NG)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Surveillance
  2. Diagnostics
• Focal area(s):
  • Identify actions that will improve the diagnostics and surveillance of AMR (in humans and/or animals and/or agriculture and the environment).
  • Identify actions needed to support the development of new tools, technologies and systems for diagnosis and surveillance.
  • Identify novel or existing data platforms that can be developed or improved to aid international alignment and support the use of surveillance data and/or diagnostics to improve prescription of narrow-spectrum antimicrobials and support alignment with stewardship programmes.
  • Identify or assess user needs for tools, technologies, or systems for diagnostics and/or surveillance in appropriate One Health settings.
  • Identify the data collection needed to understand inequality in access to diagnostics and how socio-economic factors contribute to this inequality.
  • Extend or continue activities of previously funded JPIAMR networks within Surveillance

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Environment

• Keywords:

  Antimicrobial resistance; AMR surveillance; One health; Needs assessment: Laboratory diagnosis

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I work as AMR expert, with years of experience conducting AMR surveillance in environment and human health in low-Middle- income Countries. I have experience in collecting AMR data, analyse the data for other international projects and institutions such as GRAM project in UK and Acinetobacter project in Germany. I used tool i modified for Mott Macdonald to conduct needs assessment of reference diagnostic laboratories in Nigeria for Fleming Fund Country Grant project. I have expertise in developing situation analysis of AMR and costing element of AMR surveillance. I also train researchers, students and other stakeholders in data acquisition, susceptibility testing, identification of bacteria from different sources and surveying AMR genes from different environmental media

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Network working in the field of AMR surveillance and diagnosis especially involving LMIC in their project

Ibrahim Yusuf

• Organisation: Robert Koch Institute, germany/Bayero University Kano
• Position: Senior lecturer
• E-mail: iyusuf.bio@buk.edu.ng
• Phone: 07037865734