Cultivating one health antibiotic stewards to bridge translational science gaps in the global action plan

Oladele A Ogunseitan

doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100386

Cultivating one health antibiotic stewards to bridge translational science gaps in the global action plan

One Health. 2022 Apr 5:14:100386. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100386. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Author

Oladele A Ogunseitan^{1

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Affiliations

¹ University of California, Irvine, Population Health & Disease Prevention, CA 92697, United states of America.
² USAID One Health Workforce | Next Generation Project, United states of America.
³ NIH-funded Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, United states of America.
⁴ UC Global Health Institute, United states of America.

Abstract

Scientific evidence for the urgency of curbing the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance is incontrovertible. Yet, the translation of knowledge into effective design and implementation of action plans is hampered by gaps in perception, attitudes and practices in the human health, agriculture, and environmental sectors. To fill these gaps in regions where the disease burden attributable to antimicrobial resistance is heaviest, a cadre of One Health Stewards equipped with strategies to translate and meld global and local evidence for knowledge dissemination is deemed necessary. This opinion articulates a case for cultivating and deploying One Health Antibiotic Stewards according to specific actions within the environmental context of antibiotic resistance.

Keywords: Antibiotic stewards; BAMR, Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance; Disease burden; Environment; GAP, Global Action Plan; GLG, Global Leaders Group; Pollution; SSA, sub-Sahara Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; TIPH, This is Public Health; Waste management.