16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Project title: Not yet formulated
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: RBC
• Country: Rwanda (RW)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: to develop or improve existing strategies, technologies or methods, or data use strategies to support One Health AMR surveillance
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Food
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  AMR burden transmission pathways and One Health

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

  I am Claude Mambo MUVUNYI, a full professor of clinical Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine and currently the Director General of Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC). I have more than 10 years of technical, managerial, and strategic experience and expertise in the field of clinical and public laboratory medicine with special focus on clinical microbiology, laboratory systems and service strengthening, and global health security. Prior to joining the RBC, I was the Senior Regional Laboratory Advisor at ICAP at Columbia University, providing technical and strategic leadership support to the Laboratory program/project in building quality assured diagnostic capacities public and clinical health laboratories of countries in Africa, South and Central Asia, and central America. I have also been a senior consultant for World Health Organization (WHO) supporting WHO’s programs for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) surveillance and diagnostic capacity building in African countries.

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

  Rwanda biomedical centre is interested in deifying partner to work on project to better understand the burden, source and transmission pathways in healthcare setting, community, animal husbandry to better understand AMR, to detect disease outbreaks much earlier and helps to understand how resistant infectious diseases are transmitted. The project will allow to collect data and monitor: to1) understanding the epidemiology of AMR, in particular the pathways of transmission between animals and humans, and their impact; and 2) use data generated for the surveillance using technology such eHealth solutions to improve prescription practices and awareness of AMR.

Claude Mambo Muvunyi

• Organisation: RBC
• Position: DIrector General
• E-mail: claude.muvunyi@rbc.gov.rw
• Phone: +250788493814
• Web: www.rbc.gov.rw