CAPTURA Phase I Consortium
International Vaccine Institute (IVI) – Originally founded as an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), IVI is an international not-for-profit organization committed to the discovery, development, delivery, and epidemiological surveillance of vaccines. IVI’s Antimicrobial Resistance Department, part of the Epidemiology, Public Health, Impact (EPIC) Unit, led CAPTURA I activities. These included project management and oversight, coordination and support of in-country activities including data collection, analysis, and visualization, and regional capacity building trainings and workshops.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) – One of Harvard Medical School’s two teaching hospitals, BWH is a leader in patient care and research. As part of the Division of Infectious Disease Research Interests at BWH, the WHO Collaborating Center for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance develops tools and infrastructure to advance global AMR surveillance. Their software WHONET captures and standardizes data from diverse laboratory information systems into a common platform, facilitating the integrated management, analysis, and interpretation of microbiological findings. Dr. John Stelling, co-director of the WHO Collaborating Center and co-founder of WHONET, and team supported AMR data collation and interpretation and in-country capacity building activities.
Public Health Surveillance Group (PHSG) – A global consulting group providing services and support across One Health sectors, PHSG has significant experience in supporting local governments in Asia and Africa in conducting surveillance assessments and working with ministries to enhance surveillance and health systems. PHSG supported in-country CAPTURA I activities and provided subject matter expertise in the development of protocols, training modules, and monitoring frameworks for in-country activities.
Big Data Institute, University of Oxford (BDI) – Part of the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, BDI is an interdisciplinary research institute that devises methods for analysing large sets of data related to prevention, treatment, causes, and/or consequences of disease. Professor David Aanensen, the Director of the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, and team guided the collection, interpretation, and visualisation of metadata, and development of an AMC data visualization tool utilising methods they developed for mobile data capture (https://five.epicollect.net) and epidemiological data linkage (https://microreact.org) for analyses and visualization of very large datasets.
CAPTURA Timeline
2019
- Initial country visits
- Key informant interviews
- Collect metadata & AMR/U/C data
- Provide technical support on WHONET
2020
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2021
Conduct feedback meetings with data-providers Generate Final Country Reports
2022
Regional workshop and result dissemination in Bangladesh Regional workshop and result dissemination in Nepal
2023
Ongoing dissemination activities Fleming Fund Regional Grantee meeting