FOUR UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN PHARMACY STUDENTS WIN INNOVATE4AMR GLOBAL COMPETITION

A team of four university of Ibadan students “Global Health Enthusiast Team” were selected as finalists for the Innovate4AMR competition hosted by ReAct-Action on Antibiotics Resistance , International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) , the Johns Hopkins IDEA Initiative, the World Health Organization (WHO) and South Centre. The team members are: Bamisaiye Adeola Oluwaseyi, Adebisi Yusuff Adebayo , Olaoye Damilola Quazeem and Awolola Timileyin Omolayo.

Innovate4AMR competition is aimed at designing innovative solution for improved antimicrobial stewardship in resource-limited healthcare settings. Innovate4AMR engaged students from around the world to propose strategies to tackle underuse, overuse and misuse of antibiotics which is prevalent in most settings. There is also potential to have follow-on, technical support of teams through pairing with regional offices and/or civil society organizations if the team proposals align well with these organization’s current work plans.

With over 1000 people signed up for the listserv, Innovate4AMR received 145 proposals from student teams around the world. After several rounds of judging, first by a Technical Review Panel comprised of IFMSA, ReAct and World Health Organization (WHO) representatives and then by a panel of Expert Judges, 11 winning teams were selected.

The eleven winning teams were selected from around the globe: Nigeria, Peru, India, Uganda, Honduras, Canada, Philippines, the United State of America and China. The Global Health Enthusiast Team were the only team selected from Nigeria. Winning teams were sponsored to attend a capacity building woorkshop in Geneva, Switzerland during the World Antibiotics Awareness Week in November, 2018. However, the Global Health Enthusiasts Team were unable to attend this workshop as the Swiss embassy in Abuja denied all four of them visas and all effort to get the visas within the short time left were unsuccessful. However, the team presented their proposal to the expert panel from WHO via video conference.

The Global Health Enthusiasts from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria developed strategies to restructure Nigeria’s supply chain of antibiotics to reduce access by vendors unauthorized to dispense these drugs over the counter. They proposed a Central Antibiotics Store (CAS), one for each of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria, where all the antibiotics produced by different drug companies would be stored to facilitate dispatch of product by the network of distributors. Authorized healthcare professionals and community pharmacies would order antibiotics online through a CAS website using a personalized Smart Antibiotic Purchase Authorization Card (SAPA-Card), just like ATM card, thereby preventing unauthorized vendors to access antibiotics.

"We are very impressed with the projects the winning teams have come up with and we very much look forward to meeting them in Geneva. As accomplished student leaders, we believe they have real potential to drive change in the field of AMR,” says Virginie Marchand, Research Program Coordinator with the ReAct Strategic Policy Program and the IDEA Initiative.

Winning teams were published on the WHO website https://www.who.int/who-campaigns/world-antibiotic-awareness-week/world-antibiotic-awareness-week-2018/features-from-around-the-world/innovate4amr

They were also published on the React website https://www.reactgroup.org/news-and-views/news-and-opinions/year-2018/innovate4amr-meet-the-eleven-winning-teams-and-their-innovative-projects/

Source: https://swankpharm.com/blog/2018/12/16/four-university-of-ibadan-pharmacy-students-win-innovate4amr-global-competition/

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Front page please!

MBBS(medicine) vs Pharmacy.
Which is more lucrative?

Yusuf Adebisi my boy, keep making you big bro proud

Even though funding is poor but UITES musr shine wherever they are. I'm proud to be a UITE.

Congratulations to these young brilliant minds.

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