IIIT-Delhi Wins Prize for Antimicrobial Resistance Project

June 21, 2024

The Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), has been awarded the joint second prize in the Trinity Challenge’s second competition for its project aimed at combating the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This project, called “AMRSense: Empowering Communities with a Proactive One Health Ecosystem,” focuses on a wide range of methods to improve the monitoring and control of AMR.

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?

AMR happens when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites change over time and stop responding to drugs. This makes it harder to treat infections and raises the risk of disease spreading, getting very sick, or dying. As AMR affects people all over the world, attempts to control it include better monitoring, combining data, and actions at the community level.

Project Collaboration and Objectives

Important people in health care, such as CHRI-PATH, online pharmacy 1mg.com, and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), worked on the project with Tavpritesh Sethi at IIIT-Delhi. “AMRSense” aims to fill important gaps in community-level data analytics and integration to meet the pressing need for effective community health interventions.

Key Components of the AMRSense Project

Community Engagement: Give community health workers (CHWs) more power by giving them AI-powered tools that make data collection more accurate and easier.
Data Integration: Create a unified data ecosystem for AMR by combining data on the sales and use of antibiotics and making a WHONet-compliant monitoring system.
Predictive analytics: Combine analytics from different health ecosystems to get a more complete picture of AMR patterns and trends.
AMRaura Scorecard: This part is all about keeping an eye on and judging AMR trends that help with creating targeted interventions and showing that data-driven methods work.

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