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Areas of work

Areas of implementation delivered with federal ministries, national institutes, and global partners through collaborative programs and initiatives.

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Disease Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response

Strengthening early warning and outbreak detection, supporting national and regional emergency operations, and deploying technical experts and logistics to investigate and contain public health threats.

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02

Laboratory Systems Strengthening

Establishing molecular diagnostic laboratories, expanding genomic sequencing and bioinformatics capacity, and raising laboratory quality management, workforce competency and equipment performance.

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03

Antimicrobial Resistance

Building microbiology and AMR detection capacity, improving infection prevention and control, expanding sentinel and hospital-based surveillance, and promoting antimicrobial stewardship.

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04

Workforce Development

Multidisciplinary education, leadership development and research training across human, animal and environmental health — including the GOHSI and OHEART flagship programs.

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05

Research and Innovation

Operational and implementation research, infectious disease modeling, zoonoses, food safety and vector ecology, generating evidence for immunization programs and public health decision-making.

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Multisectoral One Health Coordination

Supporting national coordination platforms and cross-sectoral collaboration, and contributing to the policies, strategies and institutional systems that make One Health implementation sustainable.

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Vaccine Safety

AEFI surveillance, case investigation and causality assessment, pharmacovigilance data management, risk communication and workforce training for a more responsive immunization program.

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Disease Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response

Strengthening disease surveillance and public health emergency response in Ethiopia by enhancing early warning and outbreak detection capacities, supporting national and regional emergency operations, and deploying technical experts and logistical resources to investigate, contain and respond to public health threats.

Projects in this area

Disease Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response
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Laboratory Systems Strengthening

Supporting Ethiopia’s laboratory systems by establishing and strengthening molecular diagnostic laboratories, expanding genomic sequencing and bioinformatics capacities, and enhancing laboratory quality management systems, workforce competencies and equipment performance to improve the detection, diagnosis and monitoring of priority public health threats.

Projects in this area

Laboratory Systems Strengthening
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Antimicrobial Resistance

Strengthening microbiology and AMR detection systems, improving infection prevention and control (IPC) practices, expanding AMR sentinel surveillance, enhancing hospital-based surveillance and response mechanisms, and promoting antimicrobial stewardship to prevent, detect and contain the spread of resistant pathogens.

Projects in this area

Antimicrobial Resistance
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Workforce Development

Strengthening the One Health workforce through multidisciplinary education, leadership development and research training programs that build capacity across human, animal and environmental health sectors. We equip students, researchers, health professionals and institutional leaders through flagship initiatives such as the Global One Health Summer Institute (GOHSI), OHEART, research administration, veterinary education and Global One Health Day.

Projects in this area

Workforce Development
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Research and Innovation

Conducting operational and implementation research, advancing infectious disease modeling and surveillance, investigating zoonotic diseases, food safety and vector ecology, and generating evidence to strengthen immunization programs and public health decision-making.

Projects in this area

Research and Innovation
06

Multisectoral One Health Coordination

Supporting national One Health coordination platforms and cross-sectoral collaboration among human, animal, plant and environmental health stakeholders, while contributing to the development of national policies, strategies and institutional systems that advance sustainable One Health implementation.

Projects in this area

Multisectoral One Health Coordination
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Vaccine Safety

Strengthening Ethiopia’s vaccine safety system through adverse events following immunization (AEFI) surveillance, case investigation on Vaccine Related Events (VREs), causality assessment, workforce training, pharmacovigilance data management, risk communication and vaccine safety monitoring — helping build a more responsive, evidence-based and trusted immunization program nationwide.

Projects in this area

Vaccine Safety