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Article History

Received: 11 September 2024

Accepted: 11 December 2024

First Online: 25 January 2025

Competing interests

: Emily Scott-Dearing is a freelance curator and public engagement consultant whose paid work includes championing and delivering public engagement activities, particularly around AMR, for the Fleming Initiative, and other areas of science, medicine, engineering and technology for other cultural and research organisations. Vanessa Carter is Executive Director of the patient advocacy charity The AMR Narrative which receives some funding from organisations active in AMR including ReAct and the EU Patients Forum. She is also Chair of the WHO’s Task Force of AMR Survivors. She shares her first hand experience of AMR as a speaker at events, for which she has received honoraria. Michael Corley is the Chief Executive Officer of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC). As part of this role, he helps to provide the Secretariat for the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on AMR. He also sits on the Steering Committee of the Trinity Challenge and is a Trustee of the Charades Theatre Company – the Edinburgh-based charity responsible for producing Lifeline, the internationally-acclaimed musical about the life of Alexander Fleming. Michael is also a qualified senior newspaper journalist. Philip Mathew is employed as a Technical Officer at the World Health Organisation Headquarters to deliver AMR Awareness, Campaigns & Advocacy programmes. Ara Darzi is Executive Chair of the Fleming Initiative, which seeks to put the public at the heart of its research and policy work to address AMR.