Under its theme of ‘Practice, Design, and Engineering’, the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance is pursuing evolving research on the development of bespoke stewardship and infection prevention and control solutions (IPS) informed by social science/implementation research. Through the theme, researchers will investigate the impact of healthcare provider decisions and healthcare user perceptions on AMR and IPC, and the potential benefits to patient safety across the healthcare economy in applying the principles of person-centred design and smart engineering to healthcare systems, pathways, data (e.g., data collection and visualisation) and the clinical working environment (e.g., surfaces, equipment, water).

Researchers in this field include: 

• Dr Aula Abbara: AMR in settings of armed conflict including lived experience. Qualitative research in AMR and antimicrobial stewardship.
• Professor Armstrong-James: Clinical academic with a focus on clinical and diagnostic support for patients with fungal disease and AI-driven multiomic diagnostics
• Professor Graham Cooke: Clinical academic with a focus on antibiotic use and diagnostics
• Professor Francis Drobniewski: Clinical academic with a focus on treatment and public health aspects of respiratory infections, especially TB and mycobacterial diseases, COVID-19, diagnostics, and vaccine delivery and hesitancy
• Professor Anthony Gordon: Clinical academic with a focus on personalised medicine and clinical trials in sepsis
• Professor Alison Holmes: Public health, precision medicine, technologies, and antibiotic optimisation 
• Professor Mike Levin: Diagnosis and treatment of childhood infections 
• Professor Danny O'Hare: Diagnostics for patient management
• Professor James Seddon: Diagnosis and treatment of childhood TB, including MDR-TB
• Dr Anika Singanayagam: Clinical academic with a focus on transmission, testing, vaccines, antivirals
• Dr Anand Shah: Clinical academic with a focus on treatment of lung fungal infections and patient and healthcare perception of AMR in chronic respiratory disease 
• Richard Wilson: Development and integration of novel technologies and interventions to improve antimicrobial prescribing.
• Dr Nina Zhu: Addressing inequality in AMR burden and infection care quality through data