Course: Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: A Social Science Approach

In this video, Oluchi Mbamalu, a Research Pharmacist from the Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, presents their work as part …

Dr Nina Zhu of Imperial College London provides their understanding of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of other infectious diseases, antimicrobial use, and AMR. The impact …

India is classified as a lower-middle-income country, with a population of approximately 1.3 billion in 2020. There is a high burden of infectious diseases as well as unregulated access to …

In this video, Sameed Shariq provides us with a brief overview of the history of antibiotic use and the driving forces behind the growing rates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The …

What is Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS)? The definition of AMS varies dependent on the context and reach of those providing it: Whilst definition does vary, the defining principles of AMS remain …

In the previous section, we looked at the patient roles as described by Vanessa Carter. Also important in the patient journey, although often overlooked by hospital practices and policies, is …

The PBA commonly uses five activities that are useful for developing, describing, and refining the ‘programme theory’ for the intervention, i.e. the description of how the intervention should work, for …

This activity was developed by Dr. Rosie Essery, a Health Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. The internationally recognised Person-Based Approach (PBA) describes iterative methods for …

In this section, we will describe a series of examples of DCE’s that have been used to explore aspects of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS). 1. UK public preferences for using online …

There are 5 stages to conducting a discrete choice experiment (DCE). Before reading into the components of each of these stages and how they can be used, take a look …

Since first identified in 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems across the globe. The long-term impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) …

This activity was developed by Dr Liz Morrell, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford, and provides an introduction to discrete choice experiments and discusses how they can be …

In 2021, the G7 summit discussed a number of global issues at length, including antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Acknowledged by all world leaders present as a pressing issue and significant risk …

Since the first run of the original course in November 2019, there have been a grand total of 2536 participant enrolments. This diverse group of participants came from 133 countries …

In this presentation, Dr Enrique Castro-Sanchez, Lead Academic Research Nurse and Honorary Consultant Nurse in Communication and Patient Engagement at the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Healthcare Associated Infection …