#WAAW25: Three additional Fellowships awarded to advance digital health innovation in AMR surveillance
The EPSRC Digital Health Hub for AMR is proud to announce the award of three additional fellowships for 2025–2026, each tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through innovative digital health approaches across clinical, environmental, and genomic domains.
Dr Chengcheng Qu (University of Sheffield) will lead a fellowship titled Toward Genomic-Enhanced AMR Surveillance, hosted by the Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. Her project will explore how pathogen whole genome sequencing can be integrated into public health AMR surveillance systems, focusing on scalable data infrastructure, bioinformatics workflows, and user-centred design to support evidence-based decision-making.
Pooja Padmakumar (Bangor University) will investigate antifungal resistance in wastewater through her fellowship A Metagenomic Approach to Advancing Antifungal Resistance Surveillance. Hosted by the University of Birmingham, her work will develop a bioinformatics pipeline to detect antifungal resistance genes and explore fungal-bacterial interactions, bridging environmental and clinical data to inform public health strategies.
Dr Massar Dabbous (UCL) will conduct a behavioural study titled Exploration of Healthcare Workers' Use of Data to Inform Infection Prevention Control and Antimicrobial Prescribing. Based at UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, this fellowship will examine healthcare workers’ attitudes toward data-driven technologies and wearable devices, identifying behavioural factors that influence the adoption of digital interventions in clinical practice.
The Hub looks forward to the insights and advancements these fellowships will bring to the field.
