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Digital story co-created by PhD student marks World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week

22 November 2023

A digital story co-led by PhD student Becky McCall, from the StoryBug study, marks World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.

Laila in the hospital

Becky McCall, PhD student from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Health Informatics, co-created a digital story ‘’ as part of the StoryBug study, which is funded by the . This study involves sharing stories of those who have been affected by drug-resistant infections and aims to change the way people think about and value antibiotics.

This , the digital story ‘The False Peak’ has been released. The story is by Laila who shares her experience of having sepsis following a series of health issues. With a weakened immune system from three years of chemotherapy for advanced bowel cancer, 30-year-old Laila had received multiple courses of life-saving antibiotics, but one day they stopped working. Her infection proved resistant to every antibiotic tried and led to near fatal sepsis. After emergency surgery that bought some time, the microbiologists found a drug that worked.ÌýWatch the video below.Ìý

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About StoryBug

‘StoryBug' is a research project that aims to reshape how people think about and value antibiotics, by telling the stories of people who have been affected by drug-resistant infection. The project is led by Becky McCall, a PhD student at the ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Institute of Health Informatics, she is on the National PhD Training Programme in AMR Research with the Medical Research Foundation.Ìý

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