ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2024
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 52,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2024 on 6,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 280+ campuses worldwide (just 5%) were selected to host the 4,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT CARLTON MEWASEH KRUAH JR., A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2024.
African Methodist Episcopal University | Monrovia, Liberia | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 6 & UNAI 9
" "The desire to expand my impact has fueled my decision to venture into this great network". "
Millennium Fellowship Project: One Health: Combating AMR
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the ten (10) most serious global public health threats facing humanity. It is undermining a century of progress in medicine, as infections that were previously treatable and curable with drugs are becoming (or at risk of becoming) incurable. AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial agents. As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents become ineffective, and infections become difficult or impossible to treat, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, and death. While antimicrobials are the backbone of modern medicine, their misuse and overuse in humans, animals, and plants is driving the emergence and spread of AMR. When antimicrobials enter soil and waterways, resistant strains of microbes can emerge in the environment, which can in turn infect animals and humans that come into contact with them. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics directly caused 1.27 million deaths and indirectly caused, contributed to, or was associated with an additional 4.95 million deaths annually in 2019. Over 450 000 people were affected by drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) in 2021. The emergence of extensively drug-resistant gonorrhea is another major public health concern. According to a World Bank report in 2017, if no action is taken now, AMR is likely to cause additional health expenditure of US$ 1.2 trillion per year by 2050 and push up to 24 million additional people (particularly in low-income countries) into extreme poverty by 2030. AMR can directly affect progress in achieving at least 6 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and can also be linked indirectly to the remaining 11. With this backdrop, the African Methods Episcopal University Millennium Fellows have designed this project as a means to increase knowledge on AMR and promote IPC and WASH through a One Health approach. During this project, a pre- and post-survey will be conducted on the targeted audience, which includes both students and community dwellers, thus aiming at fostering a responsible use of AMR.
About the Millennium Fellow
Carlton Mewaseh Kruah Jr is a very passionate and optimistic young man. He studies Public Health and Environmental Science at the African Methodist Episcopal University, in Liberia, West Africa. Carlton is also a public health researcher, advocate, educator and an emerging Public Health Specialist. With his zest to making tremendous social impact in his country, Carlton has been working over the years initially with breaking barriers to social inequality among young people and later grew deep interest in providing evidence-based health promotion messages to his community through effective risk Communication and Community Engagement to promote Social Behavior Change. His work has focused on Community, High school and University awareness about various diseases especially those that are priority in his country. Due to his commitment to improving public health through social behavior change, Carlton won a project internship at Breakthrough ACTION Liberia, where he lead a three months University RCCE awareness on Antimicrobial Resistance.
