Engagement and Advocacy

Youth Competition 2024

We are proud to announce the winners of the AMR Youth Seed Funding Competition, a global initiative that empowers youth-led organisations and youth leaders to address one of the world’s most pressing public health challenges, the antibiotic emergency. 

Our first youth competition attracted applications from across the globe: 97 applications from 46 different countries. A panel of expert judges supported us with the selection process, and winners were chosen based on their proposals’ impact, feasibility, and potential to mitigate antimicrobial resistance through awareness raising and behaviour change campaigns. 

Meet the winners 

The Trinity Challenge is thrilled to be supporting the following projects:

• Bridging Traditions: Co-designing a ‘One Health’ Campaign with Indian Tribal School Children by Integrating Eastern and Western Medicine Philosophies, working with the Society for Socio-Economic and Ecological Development (SEED) in India
• Handwashing Heroes, working with the University of Cuenca and JE Latin America across Ecuador and Guatemala
• JE-RAM Rural Communities, working with the University of Cuenca and JE Latin America across Ecuador and Guatemala
• WASH Away Antimicrobial Resistance, working with the Public Health Research Society in Nepal
• WASH Champions, at the Makerere University Antimicrobial Resistance Club in Uganda
• WASH Heroes: Kids in Action, working with the Infectious Disease Doctors’ Society in Kazakhstan.
• WASH off AMR, working with the One Health and Development Initiative in Nigeria

Thank you to our judges…

We want to thank the judges below for their time and expertise, without their input the competition wouldn’t have been the success it is. 

• Siya Verma, Research Assistant at Deliberative Democracy Lab Stanford University 
• Taek Yong Kim, Research Assistant at Deliberative Democracy Lab Stanford University
• Augusto Baron, Specialist in Public Health, The Quadripartite Working Group on Youth Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
• Daniel Waruingi, Capacity Development and Youth Engagement Manager, ReACT Africa
• Randa Ahmed Bazzi, Veterinarian and Specialist in Public Health, The Quadripartite Working Group on Youth Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
• Karina Khatic, Veterinary Student and Trustee Member of the International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA), The Quadripartite Working Group on Youth Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
• Liz Callegari, Director, Black Sands
• Rachel Bloodworth, Director, Black Sands
• Hafeez Hamza, AMR Youth Liaison Officer, Ducit Blue 
• Rhian Foley, Senior Advocacy Adviser, Wateraid
• Marc Mendelson, Director and AMR expert, The Trinity Challenge. 

Contact

For more information on the summit outcomes, resources, or to ask questions, feel free to contact Jennie Smith: [email protected]