Tagged: Global One Health

In 2016, Ethiopia completed a Stepwise Approach towards Rabies Elimination (SARE) evaluation, a tool jointly developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) and World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

In collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency, the National One Health Steering Committee (NOHSC) organized a two-day workshop in August in Adama, Ethiopia. Eyasu Tigabu and Biniyam Moges, Global One Health initiative (GOHi) food safety and zoonoses team members, represented GOHi.

The workshop aimed to identify and map key stakeholders in food safety in Ethiopia, focusing on laboratory detection and surveillance. The chair of NOHSC also presented the proposed draft Terms of Reference to establish the Food Safety Technical Working Group.

The Ohio State University Global One Health initiative (GOHi) surveyed the cost of vaccine-preventable disease surveillance in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) with technical and financial support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The main goal of the study was to identify the sources of funding for current VPD surveillance costs, including those attributable to the government and external donors. The team collected data from March 21-May 27, 2022, and held the preliminary result validation workshop in September 2023.

The Ohio State University is ranked 99th among the world’s top universities, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024. Ohio State improved its ranking by 13 spots. The global rankings are based on 18 calibrated performance indicators of research-intensive universities across their core missions of teaching, research, research quality, industry and international outlook.

The northern part of Ghana is traditionally a male-dominated society. Low levels of female education lead to decreased economic potential of women. Women's health issues are also not addressed in the area.

Experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and The Ohio State University Global One Health initiative (GOHi) provided real-time PCR training to detect genetic markers associated with Carbapenem Resistance as part of the CDC-funded Global Action in Healthcare Network Antimicrobial Resistance (GAIHN-AR) project.

GOHi team members Zelalem Mekuria and Tadesse Eguale provided virtual and e-learning modules for staff members from the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) on basic laboratory and molecular biology using the CDC e-learning platform.

The Leadership, Management and Governance (LMG) project implementing partners – The Ohio State University Global One Health initiative (GOHi), Texas Tech University and Oklahoma State University – in collaboration with the Ethiopian Ministry of Education and the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, organized a two-day training workshop for the second cohort of university leaders in Addis Ababa from August 14-15, 2023.

Continuing its efforts to improve Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) in selected healthcare facilities, the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) Eastern Africa office conducted several IPC-focused trainings in June and July.

Kibrewossen Kiflu-Akililu is the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) team leader at the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) Eastern Africa Office. He is an internal medicine specialist and has been a clinician for 11 years. Kibrewossen previously served as a physician and in a leadership position as Director of Quality Directorate at Zewditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa.

As part of the effort to build the capacity for detecting Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs) in Ethiopia, the Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), has been actively engaged in the provision of Training of Trainers (TOT) for healthcare workers at the facility level.