Data driven One health AMR Surveillance, & Community measurements

 This solution provides a new form of Community surveillance by tracking the retail to wholesale supply chain ecosystem of Antibiotics available to the community while also providing low cost sensors for tracking the usage of the Antibiotics to resistant strains.

Dr. Bipin Nair, Professor and Dean,

Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India.

www.amrita.edu/faculty/bipin

Recipient of Bill and Melinda GATES Foundation

Recipient of the Aegis International Graham Bell Award

One Health related challenges addressed by the proposed solution. By collection, retrieval and regression & AI based analysis supply chain of available and sold Antibiotic feeds and supplements that is sold in the wholesale  that is used in the Fish Farms,  Livestock and Poultry farms, We aim to create the understanding of the One Health by working with the Veterinarian, Labs, Farmers of the Livestock to identify the cost, benefit and the damage caused by these Antibiotic supplements for the animal, and human health and the damage to the ecosystem including the emergence of highly antibiotic resistant fungal and bacterial strains

As most of these sewage from these farms are not treated before it is used for agriculture / run off to water bodies, This analysis of supply chain of these Antibiotics enriched feed is corroborated with the investigation of point-of-care sewage from these farms that are transported to Agricultural lands / agricultural / farm run off for the presence of Antimicrobial resistant strains using our sensors. In addition to large online B2B portals that sell these fodder, we also collect the data directly from local pharmacies and outlets.

The solution serves clinic or hospital settings as well as the farmers that operate the Livestock, Fisheries farms and Poultry farms in identifying the current (mis/over)use of Antibiotics that is used prophylactically in their feeds. It also helps understand the efficacy of antibiotics in preventing certain diseases that are common in the farm animals. The solution ensures no unnecessary / excess antibiotics do not enter into the animals and indirectly into the ecosystem.

Our researchers interact with the farmers and other local veterinarians and fisheries departments and engage with all of them to study and create a safer use of these antibiotics. They will also be given access to the portal via Mobile / Web where it will explain the impacts of using various Antibiotics and its effects etc.

As our organization Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University is a Non-profit organization, The output of our platform will provide free-to-use dashboard in the form of Mobile application and other means. The community can use the system free of cost. We will also expand this services to other geo locations thru our partners and non-profits in other countries and help deploy them at low / no cost.

Our curated output from AI based data analytics from the dashboard will directly benefit the low income and marginalized Farmers, Fisheries / Fish farms, Poultry and other livestock growers. Currently they spend more by purchasing expensive and high dosage antibiotics which increases the cost while produces food material that contains dangerous and unregulated levels of Antibiotics and their byproducts. These data that is given freely to them comes from lots of effort on R&D in to these core problems and the data fusion and AI / Expert systems.

We are looking to scale this after the implementation in one geographical location. We are looking to do this with NGO partners such as Embracing the worlds and several other Govenmental and Non-profit organization. And since we are looking to provide this as a free of cost to the end user, we feel that we can accelerate the expansion very rapid.

We will measure the impact of our success by creating the baselines of Pre and post implementation of our solution. Some of the parameters includes, * The amount and quality of the Antibiotics used

* The type of Antibiotics needed

* The informed decisions of prophylactic use of antibiotics based on the suggestions and best practices from experts.

* The amonut of traces of antibiotics and antifungal and other bacteria and fungus found in the water bodies, sewage and other run-off, this will be compared pre and post implementation of our solution

Currently we operate in India, and as a Non-profit academic and research Institute, we are a multi campus institute having presence in 6 states of India. And thru our partnerships with other NGOs such as embracing the world and since we are UNESCO chair in sustainable development and women empowerment, we will also approach these bodies to reach other nations. Since embracing the world operates in more than 80 countries, we will be able to reach more geographical and underprivileged populations and communities.

The collaboration, networking, partnerships, funding and and the recognition if selected in the Trinity Challenge helps us to carry forward our R&D in tackling One Health related challenges that have begun to impact our lives and ecosystem. It will also help enable signup with new partners for expanding this application to the field deployments and subsequent impact that creates.

We would like to collaborate with Pharmacy companies that makes the Antibiotics to ensure the right type and quantity of the antibiotics are used, thus avoiding disuse. We will also be collaborating with the Poultry, Livestock farmers and Fish farming communities to evaluate their current methodologies and provide them the guidance, best practices based on our scientific research, explaining them the short-term and long-term effects of their current practices. We feel bringing this awareness based on the scientific analysis and providing the application and dashboard that can help them choose the antibiotic / antifungal usage wisely.