The BSAC and Pfizer’s collaborative project ‘Establishing Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Centres of Excellence to Improve Patient Outcomes by Addressing Access Disparities’, invited healthcare facilities around the world to submit project proposals detailing their specific resource limitation with respect to AMS and their plans for quality improvement work to address these. BSAC will provide support via mentorship and provision of curated education resources. The project will culminate with submission for accreditation via GAMSAS to establish regional centres of excellence for AMS.

Teams from over 50 organisations across all world regions submitted a project proposal and AMS experts from Africa and South America joined BSAC and Pfizer experts to review each application and select the top 10 proposals.

Today, we are pleased to announce that the following teams have been selected:

• Princess Marina Hospital -University of Pennsylvania Partnership, Botswana
• Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana
• Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, Kenya
• American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
• Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, Mexico
• Fatima Jinnah Institute of Chest Diseases, Pakistan
• Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, & Bugando Medical Centre, Tanzania
• Faculty of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
• Norton Healthcare Foundation (Kentucky), United States of America
• University of Zambia Teaching Hospital

We look forward to working with these teams over the next 3 years to support this important initiative to develop and spread good practice in AMS and help tackle the global threat of antimicrobial resistance.

For more information about BSAC’s accreditation scheme, please visit the GAMSAS website