Global Public Health

Antimicrobial Resistance Governance, Policy and Implementation Across Public Health and One Health Settings

International frameworks, including the Global Action Plan (GAP), provide shared direction for responding to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, translating them into action requires evidence on local impacts, country needs, capacities and implementation experiences. This collection welcomes research grounded in regional, national and subnational contexts to inform policy and practice, adopting public health and One Health perspectives and strengthening governance across human, animal, food, and environmental health sectors. Research can support this translation of findings in several ways. First, national and subnational evidence on AMR drivers, burden and impacts can highlight the health, social and economic concerns that matter locally, helping to set priorities, target action and strengthen the case for political commitment and investment. Second, policy, governance and implementation studies can show how sectors coordinate, how responsibilities are shared and accounted for, and which resources are needed. Third, assessments of interventions can clarify feasibility, effectiveness, equity and sustainability, while implementation experiences can guide policy design and adaptation, including how health systems can be strengthened to support delivery.

AMR is a complex challenge. No single sector can address it alone; responses require coordination across human, animal, food and environmental sectors, and within health systems. Shared objectives still leave policymakers with questions about what to prioritise, given their own drivers and burden of AMR, and how to act in specific settings; there is a risk that implementation becomes a checklist exercise. Connecting evidence across these areas and communicating findings effectively can support responses grounded in local needs, foster ownership, align existing efforts and contribute to wider agendas. This collection therefore seeks evidence on what has worked, what has not and why, and what has been overlooked.

We encourage multidisciplinary contributions, particularly those taking a public health and One Health approach or drawing on a single discipline in ways that speak to a wider agenda. Key questions include how policy becomes implementation, how lessons can be turned into impact and how different actors and voices shape policy. We welcome policy analyses, systems perspectives, comparative analyses, sociocultural and economic insights, measurement findings that inform policy and practice, and participatory approaches involving communities, patients, practitioners, managers and policymakers.

We invite original research articles, viewpoints, case studies and reviews. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• National and subnational assessments of AMR drivers, burden and impacts (health, social and economic dimensions) to build the evidence base
• Prioritisation, resource allocation, financing and accountability studies
• Adaptation of international frameworks to national and local contexts
• Policy design and formulation: achievements, challenges and lessons
• AMR governance and implementation (including coordination across sectors, levels of government and health services)
• Surveillance systems (AMR and antimicrobial use, AMU) and locally informed evidence to guide action.
• AMR prevention and mitigation, including access to medicines and diagnostics (in all sectors)
• Community participation, civil society experience and capacity building
• Intervention evaluations and implementation lessons, including achievements, opportunities, challenges and equity

Keywords: Antimicrobial resistance, Governance, Health policy, Implementation, One Health, Public health, Evidence-based policy

Dr. Jennifer Hegewisch-Taylor, is a researcher at the Centre for Health Systems Research, National Institute of Public Health (INSP), and currently she is pursuing a Doctorate in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She holds a MSc. in Molecular Mechanisms of Disease (Radboud University of Nijmegen, NL) and has spent the past ten years generating public health research evidence, leaning towards a One Health perspective. Jennifer has worked predominantly on One Health governance and AMR surveillance systems and policies, asking what works and how to coordinate stakeholders. She has also engaged with cross-cutting topics such as infectious disease surveillance and control and plastics policy implementation.

Dr. Anahí Dreser, is a researcher and lecturer at the Mexican National Institute of Public Health (INSP), where she leads the Medicines in Public Health research group. She holds an M.Sc. in Control of Infectious Diseases and a Ph.D. in Public Health and Policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). Her work focuses on health policy, AMR policies, antibiotic stewardship, and quality of health care. Collaborates with diverse stakeholders on strategies to contain antimicrobial resistance in Mexico and across the Americas.

Dr. Juliana Silva Corrêa, is a postdoctoral researcher at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), affiliated with the São Paulo Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance (CEPID ARIES), and a visiting researcher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Public Health from the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (ENSP/Fiocruz). As a public health researcher, Dr. Corrêa studies antimicrobial resistance governance and policy in Brazil, with particular interests in One Health, the social burden of antimicrobial resistance, and policy implementation at the subnational level.

All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo desk assessment and peer review if they can pass the desk assessments as part of our standard editorial process; the Guest Advisor for this Collection will not be handling the manuscripts (unless they are an Editorial Board member).
The deadline for submitting manuscripts is August 6 2027.
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