On 20th February 2025, the Fleming Initiative hosted the first meeting convening global experts and key stakeholders to discuss AMR education in school-aged children.
We were delighted to have over 50 participants who contributed to the discussion, representing a range of organisations and expertise from across the world.
Chaired by Dr Kate Grailey, the Fleming Initiative were delighted to welcome Dr Jonaviva Anthony (AMR Education Initiative, Tanzania) and Dr Risa Morimoto (SOAS) to present their work on developing AMR education initiatives for school children in Tanzania and Sri Lanka.
The meeting also heard from Professor Michael Reiss (UCL) and Jenny Sarna (Director of Science, WestEd) to share their insights into the challenges and solutions to embedding AMR into curricula, including how we might learn and apply learnings from past changes to English curricula.
Over the course of the next 6 months, the Fleming Initiative will work together with experts and stakeholders as a group to achieve consensus on:
what those invested in mitigating AMR should expect children and adolescents to know about AMR
what is reasonable for children and adolescents to do in their role as antimicrobial stewards and AMR advocates / activists
how can we measure the success / impact of educational initiatives in primary and secondary education
It was agreed in the meeting that achieving consensus was a worthwhile goal, with consideration for global and local needs. We hope that by achieving global consensus on best practices and approaches for integrating antimicrobial resistance into education will provide a pathway to scale for educational initiatives worldwide.
Please contact Dr Kate Grailey (k.grailey18@imperial.ac.uk) if you would have experience of school education and would like to take part in future convening meetings of this series, or if you know of an educational project relating to antimicrobial resistance that can be considered for inclusion in our ongoing global living review.
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