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WAAW: The Maker Challenge Outreach Programme

Department of Infectious Disease Communications

27 November 2024

Earlier this year our HPRU hosted three local school students as part of the Maker Challenge, Outreach programme at Imperial. The programme aims to inspire young person into Science Technology, Engineering and Medicine.

To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and in particular to highlight the different skills and disciplines needed to tackle antimicrobial resistance, we are sharing the blogs from those students reflecting on their experience and what they learned from our researchers.

We hope to see them back one day as PhD students, researchers, AMR Ambassadors and maybe even future Professors!

Empowering young people to become citizen scientists to tackle AMR!

Department of Infectious Disease Communications

27 November 2024

public engagement

Researchers from HPRU in HCAI and AMR launched the pilot of the Antimicrobial Citizen Engagement (ACE) project at Manorfield Primary school, Tower Hamlets in October.

By Rakhee Parmar, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU)

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2023: Hear from our young producers

Department of Infectious Disease Communications

23 November 2023

public engagement

The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit participated in the Young Producers Project as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival. The project allows young people aged 18-24 in the local area to work with researchers at Imperial and artists to create an installation combining art and science. Here, we talk to three of our Young Producers about what it is like to be part of the programme and what they learned about Antimicrobial Resistance for World Antimicrobial Resistance Week 2023.