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New global study reveals strong public support for action on antimicrobial resistance. In 2024, UN Member States adopted only the second-ever Political Declaration on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), setting out ambitious commitments to tackle one of the world's most urgent health challenges. Achieving these commitments will require more than policy alone. It will depend on public understanding, trust, and support. We brought together 2,419 citizens across Brazil, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Tanzania to deliberate on 45 AMR policy proposals using Deliberative Polling® and Stanford University's AI-assisted Online Deliberation Platform. The results were encouraging: support increased for 43 of the 45 proposals after participants had the opportunity to engage with balanced evidence, hear diverse perspectives, and discuss the issues in depth. Infection prevention measures received the strongest support, while proposals on antibiotic use in agriculture and access to antibiotics revealed important regional differences and highlighted the need for context-specific approaches. Citizens left the process not just more informed, but more engaged with the solutions required. AMR is both a technical and societal challenge. This project shows that when people are given the time, information, and opportunity to deliberate, they engage with complex issues and support the actions needed to address them. Thank you to our brilliant colleagues at Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab Find out more here and share widely: https://lnkd.in/eeX-46vh #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #DeliberativeDemocracy #OneHealth #GlobalHealth #PublicEngagement Marc Mendelson Alice Siu Hamish Morrow Louise Gough

Eighteen months ago, the Trinity Challenge selected four winners from 285 applications across 57 countries, awarding £2.7 million to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through data, technology, and community engagement. At our recent Innovation Showcase, they shared what they have built so far: Farm2Vet (Vietnam) has built a self-learning AI platform that translates field data into hyperlocal veterinary guidance for livestock keepers. The team expanded field validation from 30 to around 100 frontline users, formed the Farm2Vet LLC to anchor long-term sustainability, and earned recognition as a case study in a World Economic Forum report on AMR in Asia. AMRSense (India) has created the intelligence layer that sits between community behaviour and national AMR policy. Working with Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) community health workers as AMR ambassadors, the platform captures data at the community level and translates it into dashboards that are targeted at policymakers and key decision makers. The team secured formal regulatory clearance and is deploying to 230 workers across 40 urban primary healthcare centres in Bengaluru, having already engaged over 2,000 healthcare stakeholders. OASIS (India) is building a digital support system for India’s estimated 2 million informal rural healthcare providers – people who deliver 70-90% of first-contact care but operate outside formal health systems. The Antibiotic Bandhu app gives these providers guidance, clinical decision support, and patient follow-up tools grounded in nearly 30 years of behavioural research. The app is now being rolled out to around 200 providers across two districts in West Bengal. AMRoots (South Africa) is working with small-scale farming communities in the Eastern Cape, where the team established a sequencing laboratory within a remote rural community to map antibiotic resistance genes across human, animal, water, and meat samples. They are now developing a Herd Health WhatsApp platform to connect farmers directly with veterinary advice, planned for rollout across 180 farmer associations representing approximately 400,000 people. As our Founder, Dame Sally Davies, said at the event, “In global health terms, [18 months] is not a long time. And yet what these teams have already accomplished is impressive: generating new data, building trust within communities, strengthening local capability, training health workers, and beginning to shift practice and increase the global evidence base in meaningful ways.” All four teams now need follow-on funding, technical infrastructure, and cross-sector partnerships to sustain and scale their work. If your organisation is positioned to help - as a funder, technology partner, or implementer - we would welcome a conversation. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/edgRHUx6 #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #GlobalHealth #HealthInnovation #OneHealth #PublicHealth #GlobalDevelopment

Today. 1pm BST. We are going LIVE on LinkedIn. Four teams across India, South Africa and Vietnam. One shared mission: tackling antimicrobial resistance. Join Jhpiego and The Trinity Challenge as the 2024 AMR Challenge winners share their progress - moderated by Meghan Davis of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 🗓 Today · 1:00–1:30pm BST - https://lnkd.in/ePTu2dqt #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #LinkedInLive #GlobalHealth

AMR kills about 1.3 million people each year. Without stronger action, annual deaths could rise to around 1.9 million per year by 2050. In 2024, The Trinity Challenge selected 4 innovations from 285 global applications - and awarded £2.7 million to the most innovative teams. To find out more about their progress, join us for a LinkedIn Live on Tuesday 23rd, 8am EDT (1:00–1:30pm BST), hosted by Jhpiego and The Trinity Challenge, moderated by AMR expert Meghan Davis of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Let us know you are attending below. #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #LinkedInLive #GlobalHealth #Innovation #TrinityChallenge

This World Environment Day, we are spotlighting The Dispose Safely, Protect Our Planet campaign, led by Eliyah wekesa and the WSU Global Health-Kenya team. By installing secure medicine take-back cabinets in 15 health facilities across Kibera, combined with education, they are  giving community members a safe, accessible route to return unused and expired medicines rather than letting them enter the environment. In their 2024 pilot, 26.5 kg of medicines were collected in just two weeks. Around 30% were antibiotics. The Trinity Challenge is supporting the campaign to scale up. Antibiotics that enter our natural ecosystems can drive the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Starting with the individual action of the household as an entry point to a broader AMR conversation, this team is enhancing community safety and supporting public health. The team is driven by a shared purpose, to support the communities least equipped to deal with drug-resistant infections. We are proud to support this campaign through The Trinity Challenge Youth Competition. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e97vQnrB #WorldEnvironmentDay #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #OneHealth #YouthLeadership #Kenya #GlobalHealth

Nature shines a light on one of AMR's toughest obstacles - and we are proud to see a solution from one of the 2024 Trinity Challenge winners featured. The article explores how antibiotic overuse in low-resource settings is driving resistance - from unlicensed street sellers handing out the wrong drugs, to physicians overprescribing to keep patients happy, to doctors making treatment decisions without access to basic diagnostic tests. One of the solutions featured is the Antibiotic Bandhu app (friend of antibiotics in Bengali)- developed by the OASIS team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London led by Meenakshi Gautham. It gives informal rural healthcare providers (including para-vets) in India the information they need to make better decisions about antibiotic provision. It's exactly the kind of practical, community-level solution that the Trinity Challenge exists to support. Because tackling AMR is about the decisions made every day by the people closest to patients. Read the full article - https://lnkd.in/ex9i3AuZ #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #Antibiotics #GlobalHealth #OneHealth #TrinityChallenge

This week at the World Health Assembly, the Trinity Challenge were pleased to co-host the side event “Reinvigorating Scalable Actions for AMR 2030 Vision” with the Institute of Philanthropy. Bringing together health ministers, global health leaders, and philanthropic partners, the conversation was frank, urgent and insightful. One message from the room was clear: we must work together with speed and ambition if we are to move from declaration to action. Siloed data is an ongoing challenge. Information collected across health, agriculture, and environment systems too often stays within vertical structures - shared during emergencies, then locked away again. An interconnected One Health approach and joined-up thinking is essential for us to make progress. For National Action Plans to drive real change, these must not just cascade from the global commitments; but be fully funded, accurately costed, and adapted to local contexts. Bold targets mean little without the evidence base to measure them against. The most effective approaches bring together government, industry, and academia around shared goals, creating the spaces for trust-building and honest dialogue that no strategy document alone can replace. And looking to the next decade of AMR research and development, a challenge to the field: low- and middle-income countries must be at the centre of the antibiotic pipeline - driving the research agenda, setting priorities, and shaping how new treatments are developed and deployed. Thank you to our Founder Dame Sally Davies, the Institute of Philanthropy, all the panellists, and everyone who joined us in Geneva. #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #OneHealth #WHA78 #GlobalHealth #Antibiotics

It was fantastic to co-host an event with our partners Institute of Philanthropy just before the World Health Assembly kicked off in Geneva. Esteemed Panellists and our Founder Dame Sally Davies discussed ways to accelerate progress towards the AMR 2030 targets. Together we are finding innovative solutions around the world to the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance. #WHA79

Today is World Health Day 2026, and the World Health Organization theme - Together for health. Stand with science - speaks directly to the work we do at The Trinity Challenge. Antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency that demands exactly what this theme calls for - rigorous science, strong cooperation, and a commitment to turning evidence into action at every level - from the global stage to the rural community. On this #WorldHealthDay, we reaffirm our commitment to that mission - and we invite partners, funders, policymakers and innovators to stand with us. Learn more: thetrinitychallenge.org #WorldHealthDay #TogetherForHealth #StandWithScience #AMR #TrinityChallenge

On #WorldTheatreDay, antimicrobial resistance takes to the stage. Lifeline - the musical that performed at the United Nations and to Off-Broadway audiences in New York - opens its London premiere tomorrow at Southwark Playhouse. Inspired by Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin - every performance features a rotating chorus of NHS doctors, nurses, vets and scientists. The Guardian has featured the show this week - read their piece here: https://lnkd.in/eUZSyRKM The AMR crisis is linked to around 5 million deaths every year. Stories like this one are brought to life by the arts - connecting science, medicine and art. Southwark Playhouse, Elephant & Castle, London 28 March – 2 May 2026 Tickets from £15 — book at https://lnkd.in/e3uZdWcn #Lifeline #LifelineMusical #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #TrinityChallenge #London #Theatre