The AMR Studio

In this episode, we bring you a double interview with two women deeply involved in patient advocacy and AMR. Tune in to hear the story of Pernilla Rönnholm, chair and founder of Mirakel, an association advocating for premature babies and their families, and the work that Laura Cigolot is doing within the AMR patient group, a cross-European initiative to bring awareness of AMR to many kinds of patients. We learn their perspectives, synergies, and what they hope for the road ahead.

In the news section, we cover an article looking into the potential financial incentives for antibiotic prescribing in Austria, and a study exploring the potential effects and uses of collateral phenotypes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We wish you a lovely month of April!

Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode47 . Follow our updates on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify

Ready for a new episode? This month of March we bring you an interview with Alison Prendiville, Professor of Service Design at London Colleague of Communication, University of the Arts, London. With Alison, we learn the importance of co-creation and design when working with implementation, and how crucial communication is in various forms for interdisciplinary research. Tune in to learn the journey that took her from working on designing in transport to applied work on AMR, and much more.

In the news section, we talk about a recent research article estimating current trends of antimicrobial use on food-producing animals, and an article studying how antibiotic use shapes bacteriuria during COVID-19 ICU stays.

In this episode, we also introduce you to our new co-host, PhD student Elin Fermér. We hope you have a great time with us this month!

Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode46 . Follow our updates on twitter on http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify .

Welcome to 2023! Tune in to this episode to hear the work and experience of Professor Nicola Gale, a sociologist with long experience in interdisciplinary work. We learn with her about sociological work, how she applies risk work theory to AMR, and her insights into the intersection between the application of guidelines and the personal experience of healthcare workers. In the news section, we bring you a recent research article looking into the relationship between the fungus in our microbiota and salmonella infections, and an important health policy publication analyzing and proposing a framework for the use of imagery in global health. In this episode, we also say goodbye to our lovely co-host, Dr. Jennifer Jagmann, as she continues onto new adventures. We hope you enjoy this one!

Check relevant links in the show notes at http://www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode45. Follow our updates on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: http://www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify .

Welcome to this last episode of 2022! After a super busy and important month of November, we bring you a new episode with quite a Swedish perspective. On November 17th, we attended the Swedish Antibiotic Forum event and were able to talk to Jonas Fuks, an analyst at the Public Health Agency of Sweden, about the 10-year anniversary of the forum and the group behind it, the Swedish intersectoral coordination group. Learn how they have been working, what their goals are, and what their work has meant in the national efforts to reduce the impact of AMR. On the commentary, we also talk about our own experience at this year's forum, and what was covered. In the news section, we bring you two articles by researchers associated with the center, one interdisciplinary article looking at the use of the CRP test in primary care through the light of conversation analysis, and an article shedding light on the phenomenon of antibiotic persistence. We hope you have a good time with us!

Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode44/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Can you imagine a society where every individual and organization acts and works in a way to reduce the impact of antibiotic resistance? A society where everyone is aware of the problem and engaged in trying to resolve it? How would that look to you? For this year’s World Antimicrobial Awareness Week we bring you the Antibiotic Smart Sweden initiative, a mission-oriented approach to system change, highlighting the importance of antibiotic resistance not just as a medical issue, but as a public health issue that is relevant to the whole society and sustainable development.

Check out the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex9/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Coming in hot for this November month! Today we have with us Dr. Vaughn Cooper, professor and director of the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Tune in to learn about his deep love for evolution, his background at the Lenski lab, and his current work studying biofilms.

For the news section, we first bring you Jenny's recent paper looking at the evolution of resistance to tigecycline and then move on to a UAC paper on the evolution of chromosomal hybrids which result in enlarged chromosomes. For a change, this time we also talk about vaccines, covering a surveillance study looking at the effect of pneumococcal vaccines and COVID-19 on AMR. We finish up the news by mentioning two big things released this month: a follow-up to the report on the global burden of AMR in 2019, this time with numbers on the WHO European Region, and a new WHO Fungal Priority Pathogen List. Buckle up, this episode covers a lot!

Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode43/. Follow our updates on Twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

In this October episode, we bring you an interview with Dr. Björn Ronnerstrand, a political sciences researcher who brings to us how political sciences and AMR intersect and his work on the possible role of the EU in AMR policy. We also discuss the need for more political science research in this area and how AMR can be a fantastic starting point for theoretical work, not just practice. In the news section, we talk about a recent article on the role of trust in the non-prescribed acquisition of antibiotics, an update to the antibiotic prescribing consensus, and a recent article by a UAC alumn that describes the contextual factors behind prescribing patterns in Uganda. Ready for a rather thematic episode around antibiotic prescriptions? We hope you enjoy it!

Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode42/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

In this September episode, we bring you a 2-for-1 interview! Listen to Bruce Blough & Elliott Pauli talk about the Chemistry Center for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (CC4CARB) project they are working on, an innovative chemistry center focused on the synthesis, acquisition, and distribution of rationally designed, focused libraries free-of-charge to the global scientific community for use in Gram-negative antibacterial drug discovery programs. In this interview, we learn about Bruce & Elliott's background, how CC4CARB works and what it is bringing to the table. In our news section, first we cover a recent article looking into the evolution of beta lactamase-mediated resistance to cefiderocol, a new antibiotic with an innovative entry method. We also bring you a paper describing a protocol to study biofilms in space (yes, space!) and comment on the most recent report published by the WHO on antibiotic resistance awareness. We hope you enjoy this one!

Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode41/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome back to the AMR studio after our short summer break! For this episode, we are bringing you an interview with Dr. John Jernigan, physician and director of the Office of Hospital Acquired Infections Prevention Research and Evaluation Division at the CDC. We talk with him about the new innovative approaches that the CDC is working on when it comes to AMR, with a focus on decolonization. Learn with us about why decolonization is important and how it can help the reduce the burden of AMR. In our news section, we cover a very recent publication that explores a new, simple, and cheap multiplexed test for antibiotic susceptibility, and a very interesting study published by one of our Ph.D. students looking into new targets and treatment of Giardia intestinalis. Thank you for being with us in our 40th episode!

Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode40/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.

Welcome to this June episode! This month we bring you a story and theme we consider very important in the efforts to control AMR: patient advocacy. Tune in to listen to the story of Vanessa Carter, a patient who suffered from the consequences of antibiotic resistance during her recovery after a car accident, and saw first hand the shortcomings of how resistance is communicated in healthcare. We talk to her about her experience and how she, after this traumatic event, focused on raising awareness. We also learn from her the importance of patient participation and how we can help more stories be heard. In the news section, we bring you an article describing a new board game teaching antimicrobial stewardship to healthcare workers, and a study looking into the evolution of antibiotic tolerance and the role of antibiotic mode of action in relation to the bacteria's metabolic state. We hope you enjoy!

Check relevant links in the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode39/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twitter.com/uac_uu with #theAMRstudio hashtag! Theme music by Henrik Niss: www.tinyurl.com/henriknissspotify.