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Breaking the Wall of Antibiotic Resistance

Sarah Iqbal

Science Engagement

Superheroes against Superbugs (SaS) initiative partners with young children to raise awareness of antibiotic resistance (ABR; a subset of Antimicrobial resistance or AMR) to promote community dialogue and action. The program uses Grassroots comics, a simple, cost-effective engagement tool that enables children, irrespective of their artistic skills, to develop their own comics on different aspects of ABR to start conversations about how to tackle this problem in India.

Tags: Bio-Tech, Education, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture, Science Communication, Science Policy

Sarah Iqbal

DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance

Dr Sarah Iqbal trained as a researcher in Life Sciences and is currently an independent science engagement consultant in India. Sarah holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford, UK, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Scripps Research Institute, USA, before joining the Indian science funding agency, DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance (India Alliance) as their Communications and Public Engagement Lead.

Sarah is currently working as an independent consultant at the newly formed not-for-profit, Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology (FAST-India) in New Delhi, and serving as a strategic adviser to the India Science Festival.

Sarah is interested in exploring pathways to build capacity in science engagement in India and developing creative, inclusive and participatory tools and approaches to enable public and policy engagement with science towards building an equitable, healthy and sustainable future.