Background
The Harvard University (Boston Children Hospital) 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 Clinical Bacteriology and Mycology Research Team of EPHI, as collaborative institute is responsible in implementing the project. The team required additional staff familiar with Ethiopia Health System and nationwide surveillance, dependable experience in surveillance and qualified expertise in the fields of clinical microbiology.
Immediate Supervisor: PI of BIRHAN Lab Supplement Study at EPHI
Duration of work: 1 year
Tentative Start Date: 1 January 2019
Number of posts: 1
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Required work experience