Antibiogo Program Manager
MSF Médecins Sans Frontiéres
France
Dr Nada Malou is a PhD in Infectious and tropical diseases with 15 years’ experience in Médecins Sans frontiers (doctors without borders) supporting access to diagnostic in LIMC to tackle antimicrobial resistance. After several years in the field from Mali to Jordan, Yemen and Uganda, she joined Médecins Sans frontiers medical department as a diagnostic and antimicrobial resistance advisor supporting 20 countries and projects in their fight against AMR. She collaborated with FIND managing the Fleming Fund project in Ghana, Kenya and Nepal. Through her experience, she developed the idea of a smartphone based diagnostic tool that can supports LMIC laboratories in their interpretation of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. Today the tool called Antibiogo exists, and it was CE marked in 2022. Antibiogo is a first CE marked software as medical device developed by and for LMIC. Antibiogo is currently under implementation in different countries.
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Harnessing Technology to Achieve Equitable Health Outcomes