Fleming Fund - Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project

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This is an Official Development Assistance (ODA) funded UKaid project from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)’s Fleming Fund which helps to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the burden of drug-resistant infection is greater. This is a grant to the University of Oxford, working in collaboration with the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, to strengthen the evidence base on the current global burden of AMR, and help us to understand how, where and why it is changing. The Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project is providing the essential health intelligence to help drive awareness, support better surveillance, and prompt policy action to control AMR, including facilitating antimicrobial stewardship. The Fleming Fund grant specifically supports the collection and synthesis of data on the burden of disease associated with AMR in LMICs and is working to ensure that AMR is included within the Global Burden of Disease study. This project was not put out to an open, competitive tender process because IHME is the only organisation in the world with the computing power required for AMR geospatial mapping, which means they are the only institution capable of mapping the global burden of AMR into the global burden of disease. IHME is also the only institution currently mapping the global burden of disease, though the resulting information is open source access. IHME has chosen the University of Oxford as a supplier of data and is under no obligation to grant access to their computing power to another organisation.

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