WHAT WE DO

ReAct addresses antibiotic resistance on a broad agenda driven by a strategic focus on the complex interaction of factors driving resistance. For example, ReAct both stimulates and/or coordinates activities to:

Communicate the problem more effectively and mobilize widely for society’s involvement and understanding;

Make its health and societal impact more visible and measureable;

Promote new ways of understanding  the fundamental relationships, both beneficial and harmful among humans and microbes and its ecological dimension;

Stimulate new public/private business models to solve the stalled research and development of needed new technology (diagnostics, preventatives and treatments) for bacterial disease; and

Identify and cross-fertilise learning about successful initiatives to radically improve the effective use of antibiotics and stop their misuse in hospitals and the community.

ReAct aims to create, support and integrate both bottom-up and top-down processes by bringing partners together, catalyzing action and helping to shape processes at several levels in society depending on contexts.