India AMR Innovation Hub (IAIH)

Introduction

India AMR Innovation Hub, IAIH is an initiative conceptualised and anchored by C-CAMP and governed by an Advisory Council with Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt of India as Chair. 

Launched in 2021, IAIH is a unique think tank for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) interventions bringing together stakeholders across the AMR ecosystem, both Indian and global, and across Government, Academia, Industry, Philanthropic, and not-for-profit organizations. It envisages a convergent platform for multi-stakeholder engagement and a multi-pronged approach to key areas of AMR intervention, prioritized in alignment with the National Action Plan on AMR, the Global Action Plan for AMR, and the stakeholders’ mandate.

• IAIH initiatives

  1. C-CAMP is part of the Global Accelerator Network GAN set up by, USA-based Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria - X (CARB-X). CARB-X is the world’s largest public-private-partnership to fund AMR solutions across the world. C-CAMP currently supports several ventures that seek to tackle AMR with a focus on ESKAPE pathogens in human/clinical settings.

  2. C-CAMP in partnership with Indian philanthropy SBI Foundation has invested in startups active in both human and animal health sectors of AMR.

  3. C-CAMP partners with the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s Global AMR Innovation Fund (GAMRIF) to nurture and fund innovations to address antimicrobial resistance in the environment with a special focus on addressing challenges in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with local, contextual solutions.

  4. C-CAMP and Denmark based International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) are partnering to provide funding support, technical knowhow, deployment and scale up of mid-to-late stage startups with AMR solutions focusing on the multi-sectoral One Health domain.