Background
The Harvard University in collaboration with Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College is conducting a longitudinal survey of mothers and children in Angollela Tera & Kewot Woredas, North Shewa, Amhara region, in a collaborative program of supporting Child Morbidity and Mortality Surveillance called BIRHAN for mothers and children.
BIRHAN program in collaboration with EPHI (Ethiopian Public Health Institute) will conduct a study on the prevalence and effect of antibiotic resistant bacteria in pregnant mothers and in newborns. This study will be nested in the BIRHAN for mothers and children surveillance program; and it is provisionally named as BIRHAN Lab supplement study. The main aim of the BIRHAN lab supplement study is to estimate the prevalence of bacterial colonization, antibiotic resistant bacteria, among pregnant women and newborns in rural Ethiopia by collecting and analyzing appropriate laboratory samples from mothers and newborns.
The field lab supervisor will coordinate, maintain and transport laboratory samples collected from the field.
Summary of Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Immediate Supervisor: Field coordinator
Duration of work: 1 year
Tentative Start Date: 1 January 2019
Minimum Requirements: