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Our ability to treat life-threatening conditions is threatened by the rise of antimicrobial
resistance (AMR). Tackling the effects of AMR requires international collaboration,
political commitment and partnerships to ensure that robust AMR surveillance can provide
health intelligence data to inform evidence-based interventions at local, national
and international levels. Strengthening AMR surveillance is a much greater challenge
in weak health systems, as in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs), where the impact
of infectious diseases is highest and the ability to respond to AMR may be limited.
As a response to the global threat of drug-resistant infections, the UK Government
has established the Fleming Fund that plays a critical role in achieving the resolution
of the 68th World Health Assembly, 2015 (WHA A68/20), and in realising the ‘Political
Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
on Antimicrobial Resistance, 2016’. The work detailed in this report contributes to
the Fleming Fund programme led by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC),
specifically the objective overseen by Mott MacDonald to improve capacity in AMR surveillance
in LMICs. This work is aligned with the World Health Organization’s Global AMR Surveillance
System (GLASS), which acts as the blueprint for a multi-stakeholder global response
to averting a global health crisis caused by AMR .
The Open University is the Global Learning Partner of the Fleming Fund Management
Agent, Mott MacDonald. The OU has been appointed to develop and implement a programme
that will help a range of stakeholders in Fleming Fund participating countries increase
their knowledge, skills and understanding of AMR. As defined by the grant agreement
between the Open University (OU) and Mott MacDonald, the Grant 1 (April 2018 to September
2019) supported the OU to develop and pilot an approach to delivering that programme.
This work was carried out in two phases where evidence from Phase 1 Scoping (April
– December 2018) informed Phase 2 Piloting (January – September 2019). An interim
report submitted to Mott MacDonald in November 2018 summarised the findings of the
scoping phase and outlines the approach to the piloting phase.
In this report, we draw on the evidence from Phase 2 in which the OU designed, developed
and facilitated two pilot learning events in two target countries, Bhutan and Ghana:
the first event was an 8-week online course, Understanding Antibiotic Resistance,
and the second one was a 7-week blended event (online, face-to-face), The Power of
Data to tackle AMR. This report will inform a longer-term approach to build AMR surveillance
capacity in LMICs in a further Grant over the period 2019-2021. |
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Charitonos, Koula ; Littlejohn, Allison ; Kaatrakoski, Heli; Fox, Alison ; Chaudhari,
Vasudha ; Seal, Timothy and Tegama, Natalie (2019). Technology-supported Capacity
Building on AMR Surveillance: Findings from the Pilot Phase. The Open University. |
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Technology-supported Capacity Building on AMR Surveillance: Findings from the Pilot
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