Our vision is to harness the power of digital technologies to transform antimicrobial one-health surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship. There is growing recognition of the importance of data science and digital health technologies in the fight against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), though the field remains in its infancy. Historically digital innovation uptake has been slower in health and public health than in other sectors (WHO’s first guidelines published in 2019). However, the pandemic has dramatically accelerated advances in digital health technologies, driven by unprecedented need. New tools and datasets have been widely adopted at scale, representing a major cultural shift. 

Our five key objectives

1. Systems-level needs: To nurture a new culture of cross-sector engagement to accelerate the creation and adoption of digital health innovations for AMR One-Health surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship.

2. Skills and Capacity: To grow interdisciplinary skills, capacity, knowledge sharing and leadership needed to deliver a world-leading digital health strategy for combatting AMR. Find out more here.

3. Grand Challenges: To co-create digital health solutions for two AMR grand challenges – find out more here:

i) Digital one-health surveillance of antibiotic use and AMR, linking human, animal and environmental data

ii) Digital antimicrobial stewardship via decision support algorithms, digital diagnostics, apps and sensors

4. Partnership Fund: To grow critical mass and a hub of innovation by seeding interdisciplinary partnerships and pilot studies between industry, academia, health and social care, animal health and environment partners.

5. Impact and Engagement: To maximise hub impact and EPSRC’s investment through our communications strategy, patient and public engagement across all WPs, biannual conferences and events.