Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

My name is Marjan Peeters, and I work as a ‘flying’ microbiologist for the Belgian section of Doctors without Borders. Before I started with MSF in 2021, I worked for 6 years at Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, in education, research and capacity building of bacteriology laboratories in low-resource settings. One of the goals of these, and current projects, is to improve knowledge about and surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). For MSF-OCB, I implemented the first bacteriology ‘Minilab’ in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Besides the project in Nigeria, I also follow-up laboratories in Guinea, Afghanistan, and Zimbabwe.