Ibrahim Adamu, a 200 level student of Microbiology Department, Federal University Dutsin-Ma (FUDMA), is leading a group of five students drawn from Nigeria and Ghana universities tagged ‘Team KONIC’ to the Finals of this year’s Global Student Design Sprint to Tackle Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Acknowledging the development via a statement made available to the press, FUDMA’s Public Relations Officer Habibu Umar Aminu, said the Team KONIC were among the finalist team selected for the Innovate4Health global
design sprint to bring forward a new generation of innovators to address the challenges of emerging infectious diseases. Team KONIC’s project focuses on a mobile application to monitor the supply chain of antimicrobials in the food system.
Members of Team KONIC which Adamu shall lead include Kenneth Chukwuebuka Egwu (University of Nigeria), Naomi Chinyere Chikezie (University of Port Harcourt),
Oluwaseun Aguda (Obafemi Awolowo University) and Clifford Yeboah Duodu
(Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana).
In a congratulatory message, the Vice Chancellor Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Professor Armayau Hamisu Bichi, lauded Adamu for putting in excellent performance to make the finalists in the competition and for being a good ambassador of the university on the global stage. Professor Armayau Hamisu Bichi vowed to provide support for students willing to showcase their inmovative talents and urged other students of the university to emulate Adamu in selling the university to the outside world
This design sprint was sponsored by ReAct – Action on Antibiotic Resistance, the International Federation of Medical Students Association, and the Innovation + Design
Enabling (IDEA) Access Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health.
Team KONIC proposes the development and deployment of a mobile application to
monitor the supply chain of antimicrobials in the food system in Northern Nigeria, and
educate farmers on AMR and sustainable farming practices through a user-friendly
mobile SMARF App.
The App will provide Unique Identification Numbers (UIN) to farmers, veterinarians,
animal scientists, diagnostic laboratories and pharmaceutical stores. The SMARF App
will contain details and contact information of all the veterinarians and animal scientists