Tagged: Global One Health

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.

In collaboration with the Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority (EFDA), the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) organized a meeting to review Ethiopia's national adverse event following immunization (AEFI) surveillance system, focusing on data management.

The Ohio State University has selected Kaya Şahin, PhD, as its next vice provost for global strategies and international affairs, effective Nov. 1. Şahin currently serves as executive associate dean of the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University (IU).

PLOS Global Public Health, an online journal, published a study conducted by Pallavia Oruganti, a former student at The Ohio State University, and Amanda Berrian, GOHi director of outreach and engagement, that explored potential zoonotic disease exposure pathways from a gender perspective.

In collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), the Global One Health initiative trained Ethiopian Postal Service Enterprise staff engaged in transporting specimens to five respiratory molecular diagnostic laboratories in Ethiopia. The training aimed to improve the respiratory specimen referral system between ILI/SARI sample collection sites and the testing laboratory by offering insight into appropriate sample handling and transportation protocols.

The Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), facilitated a “Vulnerability, Risk Assessment and Mapping (VRAM) and Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPRP)” workshop in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, June 13-19. VRAM is a systematic approach to prioritize common hazards, define levels of vulnerability and capacity to help develop effective and efficient risk reduction and mitigation interventions.

Three visiting scholars participated in the Global One Health Summer Institute’s inaugural  Experiential Resource Learning and Bioinformatics training program held June 5 to June 30. This closed session was exclusively designed to strengthen the research capacities of Eastern African partner institutions.

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Representatives of the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) met with key leaders of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) to discuss ongoing collaborations. Wondwossen Gebreyes, GOHi executive director, Robert Onsare, GOHi Kenya liaison director, and Feven Tigistu-Sahle, GOHi Eastern Africa-Omics program leader, traveled to Nairobi and Kisumu to meet with Simon Kariuki, KEMRI chief research officer. They visited TB, Malaria, HIV and neglected tropical disease laboratories and one of the clinical trial sites at Siaya County Referral Hospital.  

Over the past two years the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) has been implementing the CARES project with the aim to strengthen the national public health surveillance, laboratory systems and to build human capital development in Ethiopia.  

GOHi already has established four additional molecular laboratories in four regions in Ethiopia, deployed more than 65 surveillance experts all over the country to enhance the disease surveillance capacity and response as well as becoming highly involved in human capital development.