AMR Centre Publication Prize 2024 is now CLOSED
Our 2024 prize winners are:
Dr Megan Carey, a Research Fellow for her publication in eLife : "Global diversity and antimicrobial resistance of typhoid fever pathogens: Insights from a meta-analysis of 13,000 Salmonella Typhi genomes".
- Miss Eve Emes, a Research Fellow at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, for her paper in One Health: "AHHME: A model for estimating the holistic cost-effectiveness of antimicrobial resistance interventions in food animal production".
Each year the AMR Centre awards two prestigious prizes for antimicrobial-related research publications. One is awarded to an LSHTM staff member, including assistant professors, fellows and research assistants, and one is awarded to a PhD student. Applications are welcomed from the the MRC Unit The Gambia and the MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit, as well as scientists based in London.
Previous prize winners
Our 2023 prizes were awarded to:
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Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa (MD, MPH), PhD student and a Medical Director of Médecins Sans Frontières for his publication in The New England Journal of Medicine: "A 24-Week, All-Oral Regimen for Rifampin-Resistant Tuberculosis".
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Collins Timire, a PhD student and Public Health Specialist/Researcher for his paper in PLOS Global Public Health: “Coverage and effectiveness of conditional cash transfer for people with drug resistant tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: A mixed methods study”
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Dr Khalid Beshir, an Assistant Professor of genomic epidemiology specialising in malaria drug resistance and diagnostics, who won our staff prize for his paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases: “Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum haplotypes associated with resistance to sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine and amodiaquine before and after upscaling of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in seven African countries: a genomic surveillance study”.
Our 2022 prizes were awarded to:
- Dr Finn McQuaid, an assistant professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, for his paper in The Lancet Global Health: The global impact of household contact management for children on multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis cases, deaths, and health-system costs in 2019: a modelling study.
- Ms Susan Nagiya, a PhD student in the Department of Global Health and Development, for her publication in Medical Anthropology: Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda.
- Mrs Saffiatou Darboe, a research degree student based at MRCG at LSHTM, for her paper in Microbial Genomics: Genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance among non-typhoidal Salmonella associated with human disease in The Gambia.
Our 2021 prizes were awarded to:
- Dr Uduak Okomo, a postdoctoral research fellow at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, who won our staff prize for the second year running for her research published in The Lancet Microbe: Investigation of sequential outbreaks of Burkholderia cepacia and multidrug-resistant extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Klebsiella species in a West African tertiary hospital neonatal unit: a retrospective genomic analysis.
- Dr Titus Divala, a research degree student in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology department, won our student prize for his research in The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Utility of broad-spectrum antibiotics for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Find out more about our 2021 winners.
Our 2020 prizes were awarded to:
- Dr Uduak Okomo, for her research published in Lancet Infectious Diseases: Aetiology of invasive bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance in neonates in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis in line with the STROBE-NI reporting guidelines.
- Abdoulie Bojang, a PhD student at the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, for his research published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: Genomic investigation of Staphylococcus aureus recovered from Gambian women and new-borns following an oral dose of intra-partum azithromycin.