Executive Director of SACIDSSouthern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance
Prof Mark M. Rweyemamu. Executive Director, SACIDS Foundation for One Health (SACIDS) at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, linking African institutions on infectious diseases of humans and animals, including antimicrobial resistance. SACIDS is a World Bank designated Africa Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases of Humans and Animals. SACIDS champions infectious disease surveillance at source: geographically at community level and zoologically in animals, e.g. tools like the AfyaData platform and collaboration with the AfricaCDC for Event-Based Surveillance and for Antimicrobial Resistance.
Since 2022, SACIDS has collaborated with government agencies, in Tanzania, to set up an inter-sectoral One Health Digital Facility for early detection/warning of disease. SACIDS hopes to develop this further into a more elaborate national early warning system in several countries. SACIDS knowledge based SACIDS One Health Social Enterprise (SOHSE). The 3-Ps (Products-Policy-Practices