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Introducing antimicrobial resistance (2025)
This course introduces how antibiotics work and how bacteria acquire and transmit resistance. It highlights examples of resistance mechanisms and pathogen-antimicrobial combinations from animal or human health.
Course
6 hrs
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Isolating and identifying bacteria (human health) (2025)
This course covers microbiology techniques for isolating and identifying bacteria in clinical laboratories, including the key principles around sample collection and transport, and storage of isolates.
Course
6 hrs
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Isolating and identifying bacteria (animal health) (2025)
This course examines the requirements for isolating and identifying pathogens important it animal health. It describes the importance of correct sampling, good laboratory practice and quality control measures.
Course
6 hrs
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Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (2025)
This course covers disk diffusion tests and gives an overview of minimum inhibitory concentrations and breakpoints. It introduces data reporting and the importance of quality assurance in this process.
Course
6 hrs
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Introducing a One Health approach to AMR (2025)
This course introduces the concept of One Health and explains the importance of a One Health approach in tackling AMR. It emphasises how a complex mix of factors involving humans, animals, aquatic species, plants and the environment contribute to the spread of AMR within and between sectors.
Course
6 hrs
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Introducing AMR surveillance systems (2025)
This course introduces AMR surveillance systems and the One Health approach to AMR surveillance. It provides and overview of the relationships between AMR surveillance systems in humans, animals and the environment. It also introduces local, national and global AMR surveillance networks and covers the functions of these networks, the types of data that are collected and the uses of this data.
Course
6 hrs
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AMR surveillance in animals (2025)
This course describes the approaches to surveillance that take place in an animal health context. It explains the concepts of AMR, AMU and AMC and what data are obtained in each category. It also discusses antimicrobial residues and the importance of maintaining surveillance of these products.
Course
6 hrs
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Communicating AMR data to stakeholders (2025)
This course focuses on effectively communicating AMR data to stakeholder and how effective communication strategies can maximise the impact of data on antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial use and antimicrobial consumption.
Course
6 hrs
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Legal and ethical considerations in AMR data (2025)
This course introduces key concepts in medical, public health and animal ethics and shows how they relate to AMR. It introduces the role of international legal frameworks and governance mechanisms relevant to AMR whilst highlighting that this is an emerging area of research and practice.
Course
6 hrs
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Fundamentals of data for AMR (2025)
This course introduces the basic concepts, definitions and sources of data related to antimicrobial resistance. It reviews why data on AMR, antimicrobial use and antimicrobial consumption needs to be collected, analysed and reported. Introduces important concepts related to error and bias and how they affect the interpretation and use of AMR related data.
Course
6 hrs
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Processing and analysing AMR data (2025)
This course looks at how AMR data is transformed into information. It provides an overview of the stages from data collection, to data management and data analysis. It introduces core concepts, approaches and methods for analysing data and how they lend themselves to answering important questions about AMR.
Course
6 hrs
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Summarising and presenting AMR data (2025)
This course introduces common ways of summarising data visually, reviews the strengths and limitations of each approach, and discusses how visual summaries can be used to enhance the analysis of AMR-related data. The course explores the effectiveness of visual summaries in communicating important information to a wide range of people.
Course
6 hrs
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Antimicrobial stewardship in clinical practice (2025)
This course focuses on the principles and practice of antimicrobial stewardship in the clinical context. It discusses prescribing practices, the use of antimicrobials for therapeutic purposes and the ways that practices can be improved to mitigate the impact of AMR.
Course
6 hrs
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Diagnostic stewardship in clinical practice (2025)
This course is aimed at non-laboratory personnel. It explains basic laboratory methods, introduces different stages of laboratory processes and discusses factors that contribute to the performance and cost-effectiveness of tests.
Course
6 hrs
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Antimicrobial stewardship in animal health (2025)
This course provides an overview of antimicrobial stewardship in animal health including prescribing and the use of antimicrobials for therapeutic and non-therapeutic purposes and the role of diagnostics in guiding therapeutic decisions in food animal production.
Course
6 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a laboratory professional in human health
Pathway for laboratory technicians or assistants, technologists and laboratory scientists in the human health sector. Pathway courses cover good laboratory practice and management, the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR, and the processing, analysing and use of AMR data.
Material
90 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a laboratory professional in animal health
Pathway for laboratory technicians or assistants, technologists and laboratory scientists in the animal health sector. Courses cover good laboratory practice and management, the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR, and the processing, analysing and use of AMR data and antibiotic stewardship in the animal sector.
Material
102 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a senior laboratory professional in human health
Pathway for heads or manager of a laboratory or head of unit in the human health sector. Courses cover good laboratory practice and management, the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR including national surveillance systems, and the processing, analysing and use of AMR data and antibiotic stewardship in the human health sector.
Material
114 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a senior laboratory professional in animal health
Pathway for laboratory heads or managers or heads of unit in the animal health sector. Courses cover good laboratory practice and management, the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR including national surveillance systems, and the processing, analysing and use of AMR data and antibiotic stewardship in the animal health sector.
Material
126 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a clinical services professional
Pathway for clinicians, nurses, pharmacists and clinical officers. Courses cover the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR, and the processing, analysing, summarising, presenting and use of AMR data and antibiotic stewardship in clinical services.
Material
96 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a senior management clinical services professional
Pathway for heads of hospitals, chairs of IPU committees/drugs and therapeutics/resources and superintendents. Courses cover the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR including national surveillance systems, and the handling and communication of AMR data and antibiotic stewardship in clinical services.
Material
114 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a veterinary services professional
Pathway for veterinarians, para-veterinarians, farmers, field/veterinarian officers and veterinarian pharmacists. Courses cover good laboratory practice and management, the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR, and the fundamentals of AMR data management and its use for communication and antibiotic stewardship in the animal health sector.
Material
108 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for a senior management veterinary services professional
Pathway for directors or deputy directors of veterinary services. Courses cover good laboratory practice and management, the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR including national surveillance systems, and the handling and communication of AMR data and antibiotic stewardship in the veterinary sector.
Material
126 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for policy-makers
Pathway for members of the AMR Secretariat, government departments of health, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and representatives from the WHO, FAO, OIE. Courses cover the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR including national surveillance systems, and the processing, analysing, summarising and presenting of AMR data and its use for communication and policy-making.
Material
120 hrs
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Pathway of AMR for data scientists and epidemiologists
Pathway for data scientists and epidemiologists. Courses cover good laboratory practice and management, the One Health approach to tackling AMR, surveillance in AMR including national surveillance systems, and the processing, analysing, summarising and presenting of AMR data and its use for communication and policy-making.
Material
138 hrs
