Tagged: Global One Health
The Global One Health initiative (GOHi) collaborated with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) to train 26 health professionals from severe acute respiratory infections (SARI)/influenza-like illness (ILI) sites and influenza testing laboratories on specimen management, biosafety and biosecurity for three days.
The training aimed to improve specimen collection, storage and packaging and the referral system for testing respiratory infections, including influenza, COVID-19 and Respiratory Syncytia Viruses (RSV).
The Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provided training for seven microbiologists at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) National Reference Laboratory. Emily Schmitt-Matzen and Natashia Reese from the CDC led the class.
The training aimed to help the EPHI laboratory team conduct confirmatory tests on presumed Carbapenemase Producing Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CP-CRE) submitted from hospitals.
The Global One Health initiative (GOHi), in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, provided a two-day clinical specimen training in April to healthcare workers from Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH) and Zewditu Memorial Hospital (ZMH). The GOHi Eastern Africa office led presentations, practical demonstrations and discussions for 53 healthcare workers from TASH and 25 healthcare workers from ZMH.
Yebelay Fantahun is human resources coordinator at the Ohio State Global One Health Ethiopia office. Fantahun has more than 17 years of experience in human resources planning, designing and developing HR strategies, recruitment and selection, staff development, compensation and benefit management, HR policy review and development, and performance management.
Researchers participating in the study of leishmaniasis gathered in Nairobi to discuss the scope of the project and determine objectives.
In March, the Ohio State Global One Health initiative (GOHi) co-organized a four-day training on the open-source health information management system DHIS2 for 72 surveillance officers and laboratory experts. GOHi organized the training with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) National Data Management Center for Health and the National Influenza Laboratory.
As part of the international TMRC-funded project under the leadership of Abhay Satoskar, professor of pathology and microbiology at The Ohio State University, Feven Tigistu-Sahle, a research scientist and OMICS team lead at GOHi, attended a hands-on practical training on single-cell sequencing at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), February 20 – March3, to improve her knowledge and experience on transcriptomics.
The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Ohio State Global One Health initiative (GOHi) and other partners, organized the first Expanded Program on Immunization Research workshop in Ethiopia, March 16-17. The objective of the workshop was to share information about different research evidence related to immunization programs, and collect evidence for the effective implementation of programs, strategies and policies.
The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) established an integrated pathogen Genomic Core Laboratory that performs genetic sequencing activities across programs and response actions. These activities include detecting COVID-19 variants and identifying and characterizing emerging threats, such as antimicrobial resistance.
The Ohio State Global One Health initiative (GOHi) assessed these capacities to ensure the lab was up to date, including the availability of a trained workforce to conduct routing molecular sequencing activities.