Project: Bridging the gap between exposure to AMR in the environment and impact to human health
| Acronym | BRIDGEGAP (Reference Number: JPIAMR_2016_N009) |
| Duration | 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2017 |
| Project Topic | Exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment (water, soil, air) will impact human health involving complex interactions between bacteria and humans. Our network of experts, and advisors, will explore and summarize available tools and study protocols to systematically quantify environmental exposures to antibiotic resistant bacteria. Guidance will be given to standardise surveillance protocols and exposure assessments in order to increase current quantitative knowledge across borders. Detection methods and modelling approaches will be outlined on how to link exposure data and epidemiological data to health impacts from antibiotic resistant bacteria. This involves quantitative exposure assessments from environmental emissions, as well as model development for carriage, excretion, colonization, horizontal gene transfer and dose-response. This will provide guidance to funding agencies and researchers on how to integrate exposure assessments and human health impact assessment into surveillance programs, funding schemes and research proposals/ projects. Environmental transmission routes will be prioritised for future human health impact assessment studies. White papers to define a toolbox of existing approaches, best practices for study setups, and to identify research gaps will be produced by the two working groups responsible for developing guidelines and protocols for exposure assessments and human health impact assessment, respectively |
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| Network | JPI AMR |
| Call | 4th Joint Call: Research Networking Programmes |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment | Coordinator | Netherlands |
| 1 | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment | Observer | Netherlands |
| 2 | CDC | Observer | United States |
| 2 | University of Alberta | Observer | Canada |
| 3 | AGR.GC | Observer | Canada |
| 3 | Norwich Medical School | Observer | United Kingdom |
| 4 | ESR | Observer | New Zealand |
| 4 | University Paris-Diderot Medical School | Observer | France |
| 5 | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment | Observer | Netherlands |
| 5 | USDA | Observer | United States |
| 6 | University of Exeter | Observer | United Kingdom |
| 7 | Erasmus MC University Medical Center | Observer | Netherlands |
| 8 | University of North Carolina | Observer | United States |
| 9 | Drexel University | Observer | United States |
| 10 | World Health Organization (WHO) | Observer | Switzerland |