Dr. Cynthia Grace Mfuranziza is a medical doctor and public health specialist with more than 10 years' extensive public health experience. She is currently the director of health system strengthening at Partners In Health Rwanda, leading a program that advances AMR surveillance, antimicrobial stewardship, or AMS, infection prevention, and control. Her work focuses on integrating AMR and AMS into national quality and patient safety frameworks in collaboration with the Rwanda Ministry of Health. She works to strengthen laboratory quality systems, expand AMR surveillance through sentinel sites, and promote rational antimicrobial use and policy advocacy to strengthen AMR response frameworks. She is also involved in implementation research on AMR. A national advocate for sustainable AMS systems, she has spearheaded World AMR Awareness Week campaigns and multipartner engagement. Her mission is to embed AMR as a crosscutting patient safety and health-system priority across Rwanda.