Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine’s Diafuka Saila-Ngita, DVM, MSc, PhD, is interested in addressing the challenges of antimicrobial stewardship in low-income nations such as the Democratic Republic of Congo.

December 15, 2022

Rima Mycynek

Tufts Vet’s Diafuka Saila-Ngita, DVM, MSc, PhD, joined us today for our final Levy CIMAR Science Lunch of 2022 to talk about “The Challenge of Antibiotics Stewardship in Low Income Countries: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

Dr. Saila-Ngita is a Research Associate Professor of Global Health at the Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and an expert on resource economics with a focus on health. His research interests include antimicrobial stewardship and policy, disease surveillance systems, and disease spillover from animals and wildlife to humans. He has more than three decades of international experience particularly in Africa spanning human, animal, and wildlife sectors, and he has worked in government, academia, NGOs, and the private sector. Dr. Saila-Ngita is also Co-Lead for surveillance, modeling, and mapping on the USAID STOP Spillover project.

Previously, Dr. Saila-Ngita was the Technical Advisor for Africa under USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats project (EPT). Under EPT, he was instrumental in building the Africa One Health University Network (AFROHUN) as well as One Health Platforms in Africa. You can watch his talk below.

Video: The Challenge of Antibiotics Stewardship in Low Income Countries: The Case of the Democratic Republic of Congo – Tufts Vet’s Diafuka Saila-Ngita, DVM, MSc, PhD