Policy and Engagement

A key aspect of our Digital Health Hub is our stakeholder engagement and we have welcomed a vast array of experts across AMR and Digital Health to discuss key questions and needs within the field.

One such panel (chaired by Dr Colin Brown, Interim Director of Emerging Infections UK Health Security Agency) was a cross-government panel including members across devolved nations. Members included: Alwyn Hart (Lead Scientist and Research Manager for Air, Land and Water Research, Environment Change), Dominic Mellor (Professor of Epidemiology and Veterinary Public Health, University of Glasgow), Magda Bucholc (Lecturer in Data Analytics at the Intelligent Systems Research Centre at Ulster University), Robin Howe (Director of Infection Services, Public Health Wales Microbiology), Kitty Healey (Head of Antimicrobial Resistance Policy and Surveillance Team, Veterinary Medicines Directorate) and Russell Hope (Head of Mandatory Surveillance, Public Health England).

Our Deputy Director, Prof Davey Jones, Professor of Soil and Environmental Science, Bangor University) also chaired an Environmental AMR panel, with a particular focus on discussing the growing field of wastewater epidemiology for AMR. Members included: Bhavik Borachia (Digital Consultant, ARUP), Mark Craig (Long Term Asset Strategy Lead and Chief Engineer Severn Trent Water Ltd), Mike Short (Former Chief Scientific Advisor at Department for International Trade, now based at Satellite Applications Catapult), Andrew Engeli (Senior Director, Ginkobioworks), Josh Bunce (Cabinet Office) and Matthew Wade (Senior Environmental Science Advisor, UKHSA).

Stay up to date with our news page to hear of outcomes (including publications) from such panels, and also to hear about our planned stakeholder engagement workshops in the future.