Gerald Mboowa is a bioinformatics scientist at the African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Data Intensive Sciences of the Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University in Uganda. He is also a Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa) grantee. GC Africa seeks to promote Africa-led scientific innovations to help countries better achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by awarding seed and full grants to the continent’s most impressive solutions. GC Africa is implemented through AESA (Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa), a funding, agenda setting and programme management platform of the AAS and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In this blog, Gerald describes some practices and behaviours that drive emergence and spread of anti-microbial resistance (AMR) and how generating knowledge, developing innovation and deploying interventions have the potential to address AMRRead more...