One Health and community engagement: Two complementary approaches for tackling antimicrobial resistance

This briefing note summarises the threat that antimicrobial resistance poses globally and explains why a One Health approach is needed to tackle it.

This briefing note, prepared as a background document for a stakeholder meeting in Bangladesh, highlights the value and importance of combining One Health and community engagement to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It summarises the threat that AMR poses globally and explains why it requires a One Health approach, what this means for the global health community and how community engagement via targeted social and behaviour change interventions could help minimise its spread. The briefing note also features the findings of two studies conducted in Bangladesh and offers recommendations for policy makers, practitioners and researchers.