Building resilient and responsive research collaborations to tackle antimicrobial resistance—Lessons learnt from India, South Africa, and UK

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

E. Charani¹  E. Castro-Sanchez¹  N. Sevdalis²  S. Ahuja²  C. Tarrant³  S Surendran⁴  S. Singh⁴  P. Veepanattu⁴  V. Nampoothiri⁴  F. Edathadatil⁴  O. Mbamalu⁵  M. Mendelson⁵  C. Bonaconsa⁵  A. Holmes⁶  G. Birgand⁶  R. Ahmad⁶ 

[1] Division of Health Sciences, City University, London, UK;Centre for Implementation Science, Health Service and Population Research Department, King’s College London, UK;Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, George Davies Centre, University Road, Leicester, UK;Department of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kochi, Kerala, India;Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;NIHR Health Protection Research Unit, Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Imperial College London, UK;

关键词: Global health;    Research partnerships;    Antimicrobial resistance;    Capacity building;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Research, collaboration, and knowledge exchange are critical to global efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Different healthcare economies are faced with different challenges in implementing effective strategies to address AMR. Building effective capacity for research to inform AMR-related strategies and policies is recognised as an important contributor to success. Interdisciplinary, intersector, as well as international collaborations are needed to span global to local efforts to tackle AMR. The development of reciprocal, long-term partnerships between collaborators in high-income and in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) needs to be built on principles of capacity building. Using case studies spanning local and international research collaborations to codesign, implement, and evaluate strategies to tackle AMR, we have evaluated and build upon the ESSENCE criteria for capacity building in LMICs. The first case study describes the local codesign and implementation of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in the state of Kerala in India. The second case study describes an international research collaboration investigating AMR surgical patient pathways in India, the UK, and South Africa. We describe the steps undertaken to develop robust, agile, and flexible AMS research and implementation teams. Notably, investing in capacity building ensured that the programmes described in these case studies were sustained through the current severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus pandemic. Describing the strategies adopted by a local and an international collaboration to tackle AMR, we provide a model for capacity building in LMICs that can support sustainable and agile AMS programmes.

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