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1: (To be announced): International master's degree Programme in Antimicrobial Stewardship (IMPAS)

A two-year hands-on capacity training programme for Sub-Saharan Africa on the theory and application of leadership roles in antimicrobial stewardship that cuts across the multidisciplinary fields of epidemiology, public health, animal health and environmental protection.

About IMPAS

One of CCoEARS' major goals is to train and inspire the next generation of leading antimicrobial stewardship researchers and actors to drive impactful health research and innovation practices that will sustainably manage the existential challenges of antimicrobial resistance for the current and future generations.

Established since 2024 and located in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the Collaborative Centre of Excellence in Antimicrobial Stewardship Research (CCoEARS) is a strategic training and research hub for fellowships in epidemiology, public, animal and environmental health for Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond". It promotes a comprehensive view and embraces a translational, multidisciplinary and collaborative research model that optimizes The One Health Approach.

Through the CCoEARS, the IMPAS aims to attract talented international scientists and support them through state-of-the-art training and career development opportunities. To boost CCoEARS leadership in antimicrobial stewardship research we are looking forward to launch the International Master's degree Programme in Antimicrobial Stewardship (IMPAS), a new professional master's degree programme led by CCoEARS and structured to enhance excellence research through the implementation of inclusive recruitment practices and an impactful training portfolio.

IMPAS will biannually, be recruiting 20 Early- to mid-career researchers or data scientists (or similar) to conduct interdisciplinary and intersectoral research activities in the broad topic of antimicrobial stewardship, which will comply with all the principles of Open Science and maintain the highest research quality standards. The IMPAS professional programme includes the participation of 8 different academic & non-academic partner institutions in Africa, Europe and the USA. The programme will consolidate the research career opportunities of the beneficiaries while strengthening the training portfolio of CCoEARS and expanding its network of partner organisations to foster interdisciplinary and intersectoral research on antimicrobial stewardship.

Our IMPAS preliminary course outline 

  • Health effects on climate change: Implications for antimicrobial stewardship in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (5 ECTS)
  • The role of Health information management systems in the antimicrobial stewardship drive (5 ECTS)
  • The push and pull factors of antimicrobial resistance and stewardship implementation in SSA (5 ECTS)
  • Making sense out of AMR / AMS data I – SPSS and R (5 ECTS)
  • Making sense of AMR / AMS Data II - STATA and Machine Learning (5 ECTS)
  • Leadership roles and management functions in antimicrobial stewardship: Theory and application (5 ECTS)
  • Modelling for sustainable strategies to enhancing the implementation of AMS: Beyond the frontiers of Sub-Saharan Africa (10 ECTS)
  • Epidemiology and Research Methods: Applying theories and practices in AMS (10 ECTS)
  • The arts of scientific writing, communication and publishing: why, how and what? (2 ECTS)
  • Research seminar I: Unravelling the drivers in AMR and AMS (2 ECTS)
  • Research Seminar II: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 pandemic on AMR & AMS (2 ECTS)
  • Research Seminar III: Modelling output into public health policy on preparedness and response strategies for sustainable AMS programmes (4 ECTS)
  • Work Placement I: Antimicrobial stewardship programme implementation in a hospital setting (5ECTS)
  • Work Placement II: Antimicrobial stewardship programme implementation in a an agro-industrial setting (5ECTS)
  • Work Placement III: Antimicrobial stewardship programme implementation in an environmental protection agency (5ECTS)
  • Health in all policies and AMS Diplomacy (5 ECTS)
  • Thesis work: 30 ECTS


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  • 2. A retrospective cohort study on the assessment of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines impact on antibiotic resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae associated invasive disease among Cameroonian children (2003 - 2024).

This research project is supported by grants from the International Society of Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD) Second Round Robert Austrian Research Awards (RARA). The project's aims include:

1) To evaluate trends antimicrobial non-susceptibility to Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes among children under-five years old admitted with bacterial meningitis after PCV13 introduction;

2) To assess the prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae multidrug resistance serotypes associated with bacterial meningitis among commonly used antimicrobials between the pre- and post-PCV13 periods.

3) To determine if genomic sequencing data on Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes harbour any resistant genotype to commonly used antimicrobials, as well as how this is distributed between the PCV13-serotypes and non-PCV13 serotypes