17th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR Interventions 2024 (IMPACT)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Not applicable
• Country: Lebanon (LB)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: Improve and/or, compare and/or evaluate strategies, technologies, treatments, methods, protocols or data collection based on existing interventions, aiming to prevent or reduce the emergence or spread of antibacterial or antifungal resistance or to treat/cure infections caused by resistant bacteria/fungi and recommend new policies.
• Subtopics:
  1. Improve and/or compare and/ or evaluate the effectiveness of existing interventions (e.g. cost effectiveness clinical utility, socio-economic adaptability, reducing AMR emergence, spread, transmission, treatment etc.)
  2. Identify the barriers to uptake, including factors leading to the success or failure of previously run pilot interventions, and when applicable design solutions to overcome them.

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

• Keywords:

  Hospital; Community; Stewardship; Clinical; Behaviour

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am a infectious diseases clinical pharmacist with 8 years of experience leading hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs in the middle east. I also have an MSc in global health policy and my thesis was on reducing OTC use of antimicrobials in community settings. I\'ve worked in the US, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Cambodia (at the Pasteur Institute) in various capacities. I have several relevant certificates: black belt lean six sigma, women leadership, Board certification in infectious disease pharmacotherapy.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  I am very interested in working with groups focused on translational research and implementation of effective creative stewardship strategies and solutions in hospital or community settings. I am also interested in socioeconomic determinants of AMR in vulnerable communities in both HIC and LMICs as well as behavioral changes that can improve decision making and AMR risk factors.

Nour Shamas

• Organisation: Not applicable
• Position: Chairperson, Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
• E-mail: nourshamas@gmail.com
• Phone: +96181352656
• Web: www.linkedin.com/in/nour-shamas-pharmd-bcidp-msc-77283b55/