Faith Amarachi Ngwu

· Management of the weekly Communicable Disease Surveillance in PHCC.

· Raised research questions for the National Health agency for the priority communicable diseases in the state, with 90% of the research questions included in the National debate by consultants and WHO delegates.

· Invited as a stakeholder for the deliberation of the National research prioritization.

· Initiated and designed the weekly epidemiological surveillance for communicable diseases in the Primary Health centres, which created avenue for several projects and programs for the department.

· Initiated the Certificate of Bravery initiative for organizational enhancement of child immunization, which raised the immunization coverage by 50% above the average child immunization coverage.

· Created a baseline for outbreaks per priority infectious diseases for the health protection department.

· Performing timely and accurate data analysis and reporting of surveillance data wile searching for potential outbreak and unusual occurrence.

· Coordinated the Vaccination Program and Awareness for the organizational clinical staff, supervised vaccination during FIFA world Cup 2022.

· Managed the presentation training for Immunization training of physicians and nurses and handled the presentation on vaccine hesitancy.

· Coordinated and managed the the Skin and Rash program with school health.

· Overseeing Herpes zoster surveillance among children and adults in PHCC.

. Designed, conducted and published research projects

· Training and Research – Speaker on Vaccine Hesitancy, Surveillance programs.

· Contact tracing during Covid-19 pandemic.

· Developed and monitoring of Influenza-like illness notified by sentinel sites in PHCC.

· Management of Health Programs such as Monkey pox awareness, flu vaccination for priority group

· Health Centre supervision, auditing, and accreditation preparedness.

· Antimicrobial resistant surveillance.

· Investigation of outbreaks at the primary healthcare level.

· Overseeing the preventive measures for of Covid-19 infection among staffs and patient

· Routine inspection of the health centres and constant feed back to the health centre managers and staffs.

· Periodic walk through at QNCC for the monitoring of injection safety practices, hand hygiene, PPEs, and waste management.

· Creating pathways for the management and control of Covid-19 and other communicable diseases according to the national interim guideline for Covid-19.

· Developing strategies and intervention for observed non-compliance.

· Involved in the periodic education and training of nurses for the prevention of needle stick injury.

· Overseeing reports on MDROs and providing reports for monitoring the trend.

· Sourcing public perception regarding Covid-19 vaccine and sending feedbacks to the department for development of answers and awareness.

· Disease surveillance, weekly, Quarterly, and annual report.

· Vaccination campaign services

· Case investigation and contact tracing of suspected cases of Covid-19.

· Health centre inspection, IPAC risk assessment of Health centres within the country.

· Development and initiation of preventive and control measures against medical accidents and injuries.

· Overseeing reports on MDROs and providing reports for monitoring the trend.

· Sourcing public perception regarding covid-19 vaccine and sending feedbacks to the department for development of answers and awareness.

· Disease surveillance, weekly, Quarterly, and annual report.

· Vaccination campaign services

· Case investigation and contact tracing of suspected cases of Covid-19.

· Health centre inspection, IPAC risk assessment of Health centres within the country.

· Development and initiation of preventive and control measures against medical accidents and injuries.