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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Catholic University "Our Lady of Good Counsel"
• Country: (AL)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

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

• Keywords:

  antimicrobial resistance;food safety;antibotics;surveillance;exposure

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

  The Catholic University "Our Lady of Good Counsel" collaborates with the Institute of Public Health in Albania. The Institute of public health is the leading research institute of Albania which coducts surveillance of antibiotic resistance nationally. It has the Reference Laboratory which is part of CESAR - UK.

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

  Food Safety is one of the major concerns globally. We are looking for a project which aims to work on antibiotic resistant species found in foods. Food is one of the principal fonts of antibotic resistant species and it is very important to establish the type of species found in foods and their amount in order to take measures toward producing more safe food and antibiotic free food.

Irsida Mehmeti

• Organisation: Catholic University "Our Lady of Good Counsel"
• Position: Researcher/University lecturer
• E-mail: i.mehmeti@unizkm.al
• Phone: +355 672121650
• Web: unizkm.al/en?lang=en