IIIT-Delhi project on antimicrobial resistance wins joint second prize in global competition
- A project by the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), has won the joint second prize in Trinity Challenge
Highlights:
- The project was based on tackling the escalating threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- The Trinity Challenge is a charity supporting the creation of data-driven solutions to help protect against global health threats.
- AMRSense addresses the challenges of engaging, motivating, and training community health workers (CHWs) in AMR surveillance and management, compounded by the lack of a comprehensive data ecosystem and analytics capabilities.
- In India, where over 9,00,000 ASHA workers face limited awareness, insufficient training, and low motivation, there is a significant gap in community-level AMR data collection and evidence-based management.
- AMRSense tackles these issues through four major components:
- community engagement by empowering CHWs with AI-assisted data recording tools for accurate and simplified data collection
- data integration by creating a unified AMR data ecosystem through the integration of antibiotic sales, consumption
- WHONet-compliant surveillance data using open-source tools and APIs;
- predictive analytics by using federated analytics across the OneHealth ecosystem for integrative insights on AMR; and the AMRaura Scorecard for monitoring and evaluating
- The IIIT-Delhi project shared the second prize with another project, also from India, titled ‘OASIS: OneHealth Antimicrobial Stewardship for Informal Health Systems.’
Prelims Takeaway
- AMR
- AMRSense & OASIS