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Halting Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance Dissemination (HEARD)

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Project period
2015 - 2020
Project owner
Peter Vikesland and Amy Pruden
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US National Science Foundation
Area
Sustainability and
environment
Topic
Water
Treatment

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HEARD is a project funded by the US National Science Foundation (2 million USD 2015-2020) with strong international collaboration, focusing on quantifying the role that wastewater treatment plays in global dissemination of antimicrobial resistance. HEARD brings together experts in environmental microbiology, environmental chemistry, and environmental engineering in an effort to address this global threat.

The project is coordinated by Peter Vikesland and Amy Pruden at Virginia State university, but the partnership spans the globe with members in the United States, China, India, Portugal, the Phillipines, Sweden (Joakim Larsson, CARe) and Switzerland.

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