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Contract: 2 years (renewable)
Positioning and reporting
Under the authority of the Deputy Director General (International Standards and Science) and the supervision of the Head of Department (HoD).
Job purpose
The Scientific Coordinator in the Antimicrobial Resistance and Veterinary Products (AMR & VP) Department contributes to the scientific excellence of the Organisation’s work in support of the responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials and the quality of veterinary products, The Scientific Coordinator will actively participate in the delivery of the OIE Strategy on Antimicrobials Resistance and Prudent Use of Antimicrobials and the activities of the OIE Working Group in collaboration with other team members of the AMR & VP Department. He/she contributes to promoting the position of the OIE on the topics, in particular through collaboration with OIE’s partner organisations, relevant international networks and academia.
THE STANDARD By
Charles Onyango |
March 6th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Globally, Anti-microbial Resistance (AMR) is threatening the very core of modern medicine and sustainability of an effective public health response to infectious diseases. The transformation of our health system should actually be from one that provides easy access to drugs into that which provides easy access to appropriate anti-microbial treatment while reducing the risk of emergence and spread of resistance. Kenya should work for a healthcare system that seeks to address the AMR, and traverses the entire continuum from prevention to care.
The goal should be to inform antibiotics best practices in healthcare and ensure the first-prescribed antibiotics are effective, improve health outcomes for all demographics and reduce infection rates, hospital admissions and costs, seek to reduce antibiotics uses on farms and in vet practices, and determine the link between drug resistance and food-borne diseases and u