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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu
• Country: Spain (ES)
• 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:

  Infectious diseases specialist; e-health; antimicrobial stewardship; antimicrobial resistance; clinical trials

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

  Vicens Diaz de Brito (PhD, MD) is a specialist in Infectious Diseases (ID), head of the ID department at Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu (Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain) and PI of a research group at the Sant Joan de Deu Research Foundation, recognised by the Catalan/Spanish government. He coordinates the Antimicrobial Stewardship (ASP) at the Centre and has extensive experience in the field of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). He is a lecturer in the Master\'s course "Infection Control: Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI)" and in the postgraduate course "Implementation of ASP" at the University of Catalonia: "Implementation of ASP" at the University of Barcelona. He has coordinated/participated in numerous projects and publications in the field of HCAI and AMR. He is currently PI of several projects aimed at developing e-health APPs to support ASP teams in the management of AMR.

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

  We are interested in participating in projects related to clinical AMR management, ASP interventions and the use of e-health tools in this area. We offer our extensive experience in this area, with clinical-microbiological-pharmacological and the Research Foundation support to develop clinical trials and other research projects based on AMR and/or e-health.

Antonia Blanco

• Organisation: Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu
• Position: Pre-award Project Manager
• E-mail: antonia.blanco@sjd.es