Interventional research to tackle antimicrobial resistance in Low Middle Income Countries in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons in resilience from an international consortium.
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Journal Article
Abstract
This article summarizes the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, on an international project to tackle the antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The research leadership and process, the access to data and stakeholders were deeply disrupted by the national and international response to the pandemic, including the interruption of healthcare delivery, lockdowns, and quarantines. The key principles to deliver the research through the pandemic were mainly the high degree of interdisciplinary engagement with integrated teams, an equitable partnership across sites with capacity building and leadership training. The level of pre-existing collaboration and partnership were also keys to sustain connections and involvements throughout the pandemic. The pandemic offered opportunities for realigning research priorities. Flexibility in funding timelines and projects inputs are required to accommodate variance introduced by external factors. The current models for research collaboration and funding need to be critically evaluated and redesigned to retain the innovation which has been shown to be successful through this current experience.
Date Acceptance
2022-02-05
Citation
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 117
ISSN
1201-9712
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume
117
Copyright Statement
/© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Sponsor
ESRC
Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
National Institute for Health Research
National Institute for Health Research
National Institute for Health Research
Identifier
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(22)00090-X/fulltext
Grant Number
ES/P008313/1
NF-SI-0617-10176
RDF04
NIHR200876
Subjects
COVID-19
Capacity building
LMICs
antimicrobial resistance
research
resilience
ASPIRES study researchers
Microbiology
0605 Microbiology
1108 Medical Microbiology
1117 Public Health and Health Services
Publication Status
Published