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AMR Data Management and Visualizations
Course Overview
This module emphasizes best practices in managing, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting AMR data, ensuring alignment with global surveillance standards.
Participants will gain the skills to:
- ✔️ Input and manage data using data management software and tools
- ✔️ Conduct useful and appropriate statistical analyses and AMR data visualization using relevant advanced software and tools
- ✔️ Interpret trends and generate reports suitable for national and international surveillance systems, strengthening policy and treatment guideline development.
Learning Objectives
- 🎯Organize and clean AMR datasets for analysis
- 🎯Use R for statistical analysis and visualization of AMR data
- 🎯Operate WHONET for data entry, interpretation, and reporting
- 🎯Generate summary statistics, trends, and resistance profiles, antibiograms, etc.
- 🎯Apply analytical results for decision-making in surveillance programs
Course Content
- 📘Introduction to AMR data structures and standards
- 📘Data management using different software and spreadsheet tools
- 📘Visualization of AMR trends using appropriate software and tools
- 📘Interpretation of outputs for clinical and public-health contexts
Target Participants
Lab scientists, Biomedical researchers, Lab managers, Students, Clinicians
Duration
Five-day in-person course at NMIMR, Accra, combining lectures and hands-on sessions.
Certification
Certificate of completion awarded.
Cost
$562
Additional Information
Maximum of 20 participants. Participants must bring along a laptop. Fee covers training materials including manuals, and stationery. Travel arrangements, accommodation and food not included.
