Project title

Comparative assessment of social-ecological resilience and transformability to limit antimicrobial resistance in One Health systems (AMResilience)
Funded by the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR), via the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2018-2022
Principal investigators
Shannon Majowicz (University of ݮƵ), (University of Guelph)
University of ݮƵ lead researcher
Irene Lambraki
Collaborating institutions
University of ݮƵ (Shannon Majowicz, Irene Lambraki, Melanie Cousins, Sara Abdelrahman), University of Guelph (Jane Parmley),Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (, Tiscar Graells, Patrik Henriksson, Max Troell), University of Geneva (, Anaïs Leger), University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine (), Public Health Agency of Canada (Carolee Carson), WorldFish (Patrik Henriksson).
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Project summary
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to human, animal and environmental health globally.This project examines what is needed to build system resilience to tackle AMR in selected high-income and low-middle income contexts. In contribution to theAMResilienceproject, the Foodborne Disease Epidemiology Group is using causal loop diagrams (CLDs) andscenario analyses to determine what actions will help to build social and ecological capacity and readiness to tackle AMR now and in the future.
Applying a One Health approach, complex adaptive system lens, and social-ecological system resilience theory to AMR, this research will quantify CLDs of AMR in the Europe and Southeast Asian food system context that are developed by diverse stakeholders in participatory workshops.CLDs are models that help visualize how different factors in a system are related. CLDs are used to create visual models of the underlying causal structure (factors, connections, and feedbacks) that generates and spreads AMR within One Health systems in a high-income region (Europe) and a low-middle income region (Southeast Asia).Using these CLDs, the long-term impacts of selected interventions on AMR will be explored under alternate future scenarios (e.g., climate change) via simulation modelling and participatory workshops with traditional and non-traditional stakeholders.
This mixed-methods research is being done in conjunction with international partners on the AMResilience project as part of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). Learn more about coordinated efforts of the .
Peer-reviewed publications
Wernli, D., Jørgensen, P.S., Parmley, E.J.,Majowicz, S.E.,Lambraki, I., Carson, C.A.,Cousins, M., Graells, T., Henriksson, P.J., Léger, A., Harbarth, S. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2023, 7(7): e630-e637.
Cousins M., Parmley E.J., Greer A.L., Neiterman E., Lambraki I.A., Graells T., Léger A., Henriksson P.J.G., Troell M., Wernli D., Søgaard Jørgensen P., Carson C.A., Majowicz S.E. PLoS One, 2023, 18(8):e0290464. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290464. PMID: 37616319; PMCID: PMC10449168.
Lambraki, I.A.,Chadag, M.V.,Cousins, M.,Graells, T., Léger, A., Henriksson, P.J.G., Troell, M.F., Harbarth, S., Wernli, D., Jørgensen, P.S., Carson, C.A., Parmley, E.J.,Majowicz, S.E.Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023, 13: p.992507.
Lambraki, I., Cousins, M., Graells, T., Léger, A., Abdelrahman, S., Desbois, P., Gallagher, R., Staaf Larsson, B., Mattson, B., Henriksson, P., Troell, M., Jørgensen, P.S., Wernli, D., Carson, C.A., Parmley, E.J., & Majowicz, S.E.. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022, 10:831097. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.831097.
Graells, T., Lambraki, I.A., Cousins, M., Léger, A., Lillepold, K., Henriksson, P.J.G., Troell, M., Carson, C.A., Parmley, E.J., Majowicz, S.E., Wernli, D., Søgaard Jørgensen, P. Antibiotics, 2022, 11, 639. https:// doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics11050639
Lambraki, I.A.,Cousins, M., Graells, T., Léger, A., Henriksson, P., Harbarth, S., Troell, M., Wernli, D., Søgaard Jørgensen, P., Desbois, A.P., Carson, C.A., Parmley, E.J.,Majowicz, S.E. PLOS ONE, 2022, 17(2), e0263914.
Lambraki, I.A., Majowicz, S.E., Parmley, E.J., Wernli, D., Léger, A., Graells, T., Cousins, M., Harbarth, S., Carson, C., Henriksson, P., Troell, M. . JMIR Research Protocols, 2021, 10(6):e24378.
Léger, A., Lambraki, I., Graells, T., Cousins, M., Henriksson, P., Harbarth, S., Carson, C., Majowicz, S.E., Troell, M., Parmley, E.J., Jørgensen, P.S., & Wernli, D. BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021, 21(1), 873. DOI: 10.1186/s12879-021-06483-z.
Léger, A., Lambraki, I., Graells, T., Cousins, M., Henriksson, P., Harbarth, S., Carson, C., Majowicz, S., Troell, M., Parmley, E.J., Jørgensen, P.S., Wernli, D. . Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2021, 76, 1-21.
Wernli, D., Jørgensen, P. S., Parmley, E. J., Troell, M., Majowicz, S., Harbarth, S., Léger, A., Lambraki, I., Graells, T., Henriksson, J. G., Carson, C., Cousins, M., ... Carson, C. . The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020, 20(12), e307-e311.
Data files
Cousins, M., 2022,, Borealis, V1, UNF:6:7MNV1+/sxDeftXfWjznwkg== [fileUNF]
Cousins, M. , 2022,, Borealis, V2
Cousins, M., 2022,, Borealis, V1, UNF:6:Scmti+htcN4SQ9/sgkUwFQ== [fileUNF]
Research brief
“Factors influencing antimicrobial resistance in food systems & recommendations for long-term governance under a changing climate. Research Brief.”

Created by:Irene Lambraki
Cite this as:Lambraki IA, Cousins, M, Graells T, Troell M,Søgaard JørgensenP, Wernli D, Parmley EJ, Majowicz SE. “Factors influencing antimicrobial resistance in food systems & recommendations for long-term governance under a changing climate. Research Brief”. 2022 Mar 21. Available from:/foodborne-disease-epidemiology-group/research/amresilience
Infographic
"A review of the evidence landscape to parameterize a One Health model of AMRin the Swedish food system context: Using expert knowledge in the interim?"
![ review of the evidence landscape to parameterize a One Health model of AMR [Click and drag to move] ](/foodborne-disease-epidemiology-group/sites/default/files/uploads/images/infographic_cousins_2021.jpg)
Created by: Melanie Cousins
Cite this as:Cousins, M. A review of the evidence landscape to parameterize a One Health model of AMR in a Swedish food system context: Using expert knowledge in the interim? [Infogrpahic]. 2021 Oct 29. Available from:/foodborne-disease-epidemiology-group/research/amresilience
Content created to guide participatory workshop discussions
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1) "A look at Sweden as it greets the 2050 new year”: scenario newsletter developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Sweden

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Cite this as: Wysong P, Kwan X, Cousins M, Lambraki I, Carson C, Parmley J, Majowicz S. "A look at Sweden as it greets the 2050 new year”: scenario newsletter developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Sweden [internet]. 2020 Nov 5. Available from: /food-epi-group/sites/ca.foodborne-disease-epidemiology-group/files/uploads/files/swedenscenarionewsletter2020.pdf
2) "Malaysia suffers greatly from climate change”: scenario newsletter developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Malaysia

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Cite this as: Wysong P, Kwan X, Cousins M, Lambraki I, Carson C, Parmley J, Majowicz S. "Malaysia suffers greatly from climate change”: scenario newsletter developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Malaysia [internet]. 2020 Nov 5. Available from: /food-epi-group/sites/ca.foodborne-disease-epidemiology-group/files/uploads/files/malaysiascenarionewsletter2020.pdf
3) "Welcome to the world in 2050": Scenario video developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Sweden
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Cite this as: D’Mello K, Kwan X, Wysong P, Cousins M, Lambraki I, Carson C, Parmley J, Majowicz S. [Foodborne Disease Epidemiology Group]. "Welcome to the world in 2050": Scenario video developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Sweden [video file]. 2020 Oct 28. Available from: https://youtu.be/Ox-MYjDfCT8
4)"Welcome to the world in 2050": Scenario video developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Malaysia
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Cite this as: D’Mello K, Kwan X, Wysong P, Cousins M, Lambraki I, Carson C, Parmley J, Majowicz S. [Foodborne Disease Epidemiology Group]. "Welcome to the world in 2050": Scenario video developed for participatory scenario analysis workshops in Malaysia [video file]. 2020 Nov 2. Available from: https://youtu.be/ouzy2FvYSik