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Dear members of AMSA,

We would like to invite you to participate in the second annual Innovate4AMR, a global student design competition aimed at improving antimicrobial stewardship in low-resource healthcare settings, with the objective of ensuring access and increasing equity. Sponsored by the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), ReAct, the IDEA Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO), Innovate4AMR offers you and your student group members the opportunity to join the front lines of the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

Antibiotics are the cornerstone of many miracles of modern day medicine, from cancer chemotherapy to organ donation. The loss of effective antibiotics would mean reverting to a time when simple infections might become untreatable. Each year, 700,000 people die due to drug-resistant infections and, if unchecked, this number may rise to 10 million deaths a year by 2050— more than the number of people that die of cancer today.

Innovate4AMR’s teams, drawn from across the globe, will be asked to design novel strategies for key actors that have influence over how antibiotics are used appropriately or not in the healthcare delivery system. In particular, the competition asks participants to focus on social policies, structures, and other systems-level actions that affect antimicrobial stewardship, access, and equity. Innovate4AMR invites students to come up with creative solutions that tackle how we might manage better the use of life-saving antibiotics in our hospitals, clinics and outpatient pharmacies, particularly in resource-limited settings. How can we change patient expectations of an antibiotic when faced with a viral illness not treatable by such drugs? What role might telehealth play in improving antimicrobial stewardship without local infectious disease experts? Could mobile phones enable delayed prescribing of antibiotics till the patient actually needs such treatment? How do we achieve access, but not excess in stewarding this resource in healthcare delivery?

The winners of the competition will be given an opportunity to present their proposal at a capacity building workshop. The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, September 16, 2019. Given that your student organisation produces some of the world’s brightest future leaders, we wanted to extend a personal invitation to your students to form a team and submit a proposal to the hackathon. Last year 145 teams joined us in this effort, and the eleven winning teams brought forward an array of innovative projects.

To learn more about the competition and how to register, please visit innovate4amr.org. Both a one-page flyer and a two-page handout for the competition are also attached. We hope that you will invite your colleagues to join us in this year’s global call for proposals. Interested students can sign up here for updates.

Our best,

On behalf of the Innovate4AMR Team

The 25th edition of AMSA International eNewsletter is finally out! The theme of the current edition is World Cancer Day 2019. 

World Cancer Day takes place every year on February 4. 6 million people die each year from cancer. That is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. By 2030, experts project cancer deaths to rise to 13 million. If we don’t act. Through raising the public and political literacy and understanding around cancer, we reduce fear, increase understanding, dispel myths and misconceptions, and change behaviors and attitudes. Considering the urgency and opportunity of this matter, AMSA International has also joined the world in commemoration.

Read the eNewsletter through this link:

https://issuu.com/amsainternational/docs/amsa_enewsletter__25

What’s inside?

1. Exclusive Content: EAMSC Thailand 2019
2. Hear out what our members say about World Cancer Day
3. Catch up with the latest activities of AMSA Chapters all over Asia!
4. Learn new knowledge about cities and cultures of AMSA Chapters
5. Check out the photograph taken by our talented members
6. ^[NEW!]World Cancer Day academic quiz & 24^thedition’s winner announcement

Got a research paper just waiting to present itself to the world? Or perhaps encountered a rare case in the hospital? 

JWC-2019 provides you the opportunity to showcase your work in front of imminent and renowned medical professionals worldwide at CMCL’s first ever international congress for medical students! 

Theme : Non communicable diseases.

All candidates who submit abstracts must be registered delegates of the conference. 

For registration and detailed academic guidelines for submission log into our website www.jwc2019cmc.com