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Tackling the Intersectoral Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance: Problem Solving Seminar
Location
Internet
Term
3rd Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2025 - 2026
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online with Some Synchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
Enrollment Restriction
This course is not restricted.
This course examines the effects of AMR on healthcare delivery and food systems globally. As a One Health issue, AMR also has an environmental dimension: up to 80 percent of some antimicrobials consumed by humans or food animals may be excreted and discharged into the environment. The innovation of antibiotics may defy the incentives of traditional business models, for greater product sales may be at odds with efforts to ensure access, but not excess use of this life-saving technology. How do we realign these incentives, not only in bringing these antimicrobials to market, but also in their use across sectors, to ensure the stewardship of these public goods?
Examines antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as an intersectoral challenge, one that crosses borders and threatens the gains made by modern day medicine. Invites students to tackle this global health challenge by applying strategic planning tools such as problem and objective trees as well as stakeholder and SWOT analyses, imparting policy tools that will be more widely useful in other areas of public health while providing an opportunity to deepen one’s appreciation and find creative solutions to antimicrobial resistance.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Examine how global policymaking influences and guides the workings of intergovernmental agencies, national governments and local healthcare delivery and food production
- Analyze economic, ethical and equity issues related to antimicrobial access, innovation, and use in the healthcare delivery system and food production system
- Design a systems-level intervention that will make a catalytic difference in advancing antimicrobial resistance policy or outcomes within a One Health or intersectoral framework
- Assess how policy tools and measures can help hold key actors accountable and recognize disparate impact of policy interventions across countries, sectors and settings of differing resource levels
- Identify interprofessional team perspectives and insights to propose approaches for driving multistakeholder action for tackling antimicrobial resistance
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
- 10% Participation
- 20% Quizzes
- 20% Written Assignment(s)
- 25% Midterm Paper
- 25% Final Paper