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Overview
What you will study
The Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reflects a One Health perspective that incorporates multiple disciplines, multiple sectors and national and international level considerations. Specifically, the course will:
- Provide grounding in multiple aspects of antimicrobial resistance as outlined in the WHO Global Action Plan
- Guide participants through the interdisciplinary understanding of AMR from molecular biology to medical anthropology
- To review and analyse a wide range of relevant topics - including definitions, genetics, epidemiology, public health impact, ethics, patient and health worker knowledge, chemical analysis, regulation and potential interventions
- Outline key challenges in developing and implementing interventions
- Equip participants to critically analyse and improve policies and strategies in the low and middle income countries where they work.
- To bring together a diversity of faculty and postgraduate students, interested in the subject to learn and discuss together.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- The history of antibiotics and emergence of antibiotic resistance
- Antibiotic targets and mechanisms of resistance
- Diagnostic laboratory identification of AMR
- Break points and standardisation
- AMR surveillance methods and burden of drug-resistant infections
- Pharmacokinetics, exposure and drug failure
- One health and AMR
- The use of genomics in AMR
- Antibiotic usage and agriculture
- AMR and the environment
- Infection control
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- The role of diagnostics in reducing antibiotic usage
- Role of water, sanitation and hygiene in AMR
- Role of vaccines in reducing AMR
- Novel alternatives to antimicrobials
- Developing new therapies
- Economics of AMR
- Social science aspects of antibiotic use
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
More details
- Please contact the university for more information about the application deadline.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Microbiology View 10 other Short Courses in Microbiology in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- The course is aimed at those designing, implementing and evaluating strategies to address AMR.
- Applicants should have a good command of English, as all teaching will be in English.
Tuition Fee
Funding
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