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Rabietou Ly

 

Rabietou Ly

Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal

Abstract Title:

Strengthening Regional One Health Preparedness through a Community-of-Practice Model (October 2025 - April 2026)

Biography:

Rabietou Ly holds a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene and a Master of Public Health from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Boston, MA). She is currently Project Manager at the Institut Pasteur de Dakar (Senegal), coordinating FEF AFROSCREEN regional One Health initiatives focused on preparedness, collaboration, and strengthening multidisciplinary communities of practice across Africa. She has over 15 years of clinical dental practice experience in both public and private sectors and served as a Clinical Program Manager at Thunder mist Health Center (Woonsocket, RI), overseeing programs including Ryan White, Women’s Cancer Screening, and Family Planning.

Research Interests:

FEF AFROSCREEN is a regional One Health (OH) initiative coordinated by the Institut Pasteur de Dakar to strengthen collaboration, knowledge sharing, and preparedness capacities across Africa through a community-of-practice approach. The initiative combines scientific webinars, institutional ECHO sessions, and regional coordination activities to support National One Health Platforms and reinforce pandemic preparedness. It demonstrates the broad reach, strong engagement, and multidisciplinary collaboration that can be achieved through a regional OH community-of-practice model. Methods: Participation data were collected from Zoom reports for four AFROSCREEN webinars and the iECHO platform for three ONE HEALTH COMMUNITY ECHO sessions between October 2025 and April 2026. Engagement was defined as attendance in at least one session and retention as participation in two or more sessions within the same series. Results: Across seven sessions, FEF AFROSCREEN convened a multidisciplinary and multi-country One Health community involving participants from 90 countries and generating more than 2,445 learning hours. The four AFROSCREEN scientific webinars gathered 792 unique participants across the first three sessions, with a 25.8% retention rate (204 attending two or more webinars and 58 attending all three),while the fourth webinar recorded 513 additional connections. The ONE HEALTH COMMUNITY ECHO series reached 1,211 registrants from 42 countries, including 30 African countries, with 667 active participants generating 1,091 session attendances. Activities mobilized 12 high-level experts representing National One Health Platforms and partner institutions from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Cameroon, and other African countries. Sessions addressed OH coordination, pandemic preparedness, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), communication risk assessment, and community engagement strengthening peer-to-peer learning and regional collaboration across Africa. Conclusion: FEF AFROSCREEN demonstrates the value of a regional community-of-practice model in strengthening One Health preparedness, collaboration, and collective learning by convening a multidisciplinary, multi-country OH network with measurable engagement and retention outcomes.