Global One Health News

Data analysis of real time PCR training helps improve laboratory capacity

Senior laboratory experts, Zelalem Mekuria, Joan Miquel Balada-Llasat and Tadesse Eguale from the Global One Health initiative provided laboratory real time PCR training for six microbiologists from Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Addis Ababa, in an effort to improve laboratory capacity. The training was conducted as part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded Global Action in Healthcare Network Antimicrobial Resistance project.

Samuel Muluye Welelaw is a senior monitoring and evaluation expert at the Global One Health initiative (GOHi) Ethiopia office. Welelaw has more than 15 years of experience in designing and developing monitoring and evaluation systems for project planning, performance monitoring and evaluations, managing various research and surveys and designing information management systems.