OHAMR Call for proposals 2026

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Lausanne
• Country: Switzerland (CH)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 3: Assess the impact of antimicrobials for veterinary and agricultural use on the risk of AMR transmission to humans and the environment to inform policies on the restriction of some antimicrobials for human use.
• One Health Setting:

  H - Human Health

  A - Animal Health
  E - Environment

• Keywords:

  wastewater; modelling; surveillance

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

  I lead a research group on surveillance and modelling of infectious diseases at Unisanté / University of Lausanne. We have expertise in epidemiology, mathematical models of transmission and AMR, Bayesian statistics and generally data analysis methods for infectious disease surveillance and human biomonitoring.

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

  Wastewater-based epidemiology has expanded fast in Switzerland, producing rich longitudinal datasets from treatment plants. Large sets of phenotypic and genomic resistance data from cultured E. coli are available and still under-exploited. Within a larger consortium, our role would be to develop the mathematical modelling framework that converts these data into quantitative indicators of transmission, selection, and resistance spread. We would link wastewater observations to drivers such as antibiotic use, population, veterinary practices, policies and environmental factors, and build models that track and predict resistance dynamics at catchment scale. By confronting model output with observed phenotypes and genomes, we would deliver methods that strengthen early detection, attribution, and short-term forecasting of AMR within the consortium’s broader goals.

Julien Riou

• Organisation: University of Lausanne
• Position: Lecturer
• E-mail: julien.riou@unisante.ch