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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University College Cork
• Country: Ireland (IE)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

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:

  implementation science; qualitative research; patient experience; antimicrobial prescribing; healthcare antimicrobial surveillance

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

  I have expertise in the area of qualitative, implementation science, systematic scoping review research methodologies investigating and optimising antimicrobial prescribing in healthcare settings. I have ongoing research evaluating factors influencing antimicrobial prescribing in long term care settings. I was PI for a feasibility study evaluating the impact of procalcitonin on antimicrobial prescribing in hospital. A current project will investigate the impact of a patient RTI leaflet to explain why antibiotics are not needed (primary care intervention with General Practitioners). Another research project I am PI on is capturing patient and staff stories of antimicrobial resistance, infection and sepsis. I have doctoral and postgraduate supervision experience and an ongoing track record of publications and research funding and collaborations. I have partnered on the PRUDENCE trial in Ireland (part of the VALUE-Dx consortium) to lead on the process evaluation of the trial. I am a member of the British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Council and work on the education subgroup and contribute to ongoing work in this area. As Vice Head for Interprofessional Learning in the College of Medicine and Health in my university I have a wide network of interprofessional and interdisciplinary partners in research and education.

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

  I would be interested to join projects regarding Human health, under topic 2 in all areas of antimicrobial stewardship in healthcare settings, working on intervention/implementation strategies and exploratory research investigating the factors influencing antimicrobial use, and investigating the patient outcomes.

Aoife

• Organisation: University College Cork
• Position: Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy
• E-mail: a.fleming@ucc.ie
• Web: research.ucc.ie/profiles/C019/afleming