To coincide with World Antibiotic Awareness Week the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is launching a new website for its DRUM project.
DRUM (Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi) works collaboratively within Uganda and Malawi to identify and understand the key drivers of resistance in these countries.
The DRUM Consortium will address how human behaviour and antibacterial usage in the home, around animals and in the wider environment in urban and rural areas of Uganda and Malawi contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
World Antibiotic Awareness Week, organised by the World Health Organisation aims to increase global awareness of antibiotic resistance and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policymakers to avoid the further emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance.
LSTM was among the first institutions in the world to recognise the importance of studying and understanding the phenomenon of resistance and has developed a multidisciplinary approach involving the entire research continuum from bench, to patient through to health systems involving cross-disciplinary teams working between laboratory scientists, engineers, mathematical modellers, clinicians, and social scientists.
It has a multimillion-pound research portfolio on antibiotic resistance ranging from the evolutionary and molecular biology of resistant bacteria to genomic and microbiological epidemiology and surveillance at local, national and international scales, stewardship, social science, policy implementation, and capability and capacity strengthening in many countries throughout the world.
Visit the new DRUM website at https://www.drumconsortium.org/