For the fifth year, the Small World Initiative® challenged students to do something about superbugs and the growing global antibiotic crisis in recognition of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's (CDC) Annual Antibiotic Awareness Week and global activities from the World Health Organization and other stakeholders. During the month of November, we teamed up with the CDC, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Sociedad Española de Microbiología, and other partners to encourage students to do something about the antibiotic crisis. Superbugs are causing a global crisis, killing more than 700,000 people each year. If we do not take significant action now, superbugs will become a leading cause of death worldwide by 2050, killing more people than cancer and diabetes combined. Students from around the world answered our call to action! Check out the creative and impactful ways students are confronting one of the most pressing global challenges of our time below. To read more about the challenge announcement and prize packages, please click here.
Watch how students around the world are taking action on the global antibiotic crisis.
FLYER. RYAN CLAY.
FLYER: ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE. TEAM: HAYDN PRATER AND JUSTIN HUTTER.
IG QUIZ. TEAM: BRYNN ALFSON AND LILJA DAVIDSDOTTIR.
IG STORIES. TEAM: María Zahonero Pastor, Candela Domenech Zapata, Francisco Javier De Juan Oliva, Antonio Tarín Pelló, Oscar López Mascarenhas, María Dolores Payá Jordá, Caitlin Marie Tygart, Carmen Fernández Jaramillo, Lucía Bernat Just, Noelia Rubio Buendía, Pilar Gimeno Vidal, Inmaculada Morocho Herranz, Belén Pérez Climent, Anna Piera Micó, Joana Valls Gómez, Kevin Luna Velarte, Amber Victoria Devigne, María Luisa Gil Orero, Angeles Rosana Obiang Nchama, Alvaro Lupiañez Martínez, Andreu Ferrer Carceller, Linh Ta Phuong, Marina Redondo López, Ana Cristina Lavao Bosch, Marta María Navarro Vallés, and María Huerta Pérez.
FLYER. María Zahonero Pastor, Candela Domenech Zapata, Francisco Javier De Juan Oliva, Antonio Tarín Pelló, Oscar López Mascarenhas, María Dolores Payá Jordá, Caitlin Marie Tygart, Carmen Fernández Jaramillo, Lucía Bernat Just, Noelia Rubio Buendía, Pilar Gimeno Vidal, Inmaculada Morocho Herranz, Belén Pérez Climent, Anna Piera Micó, Joana Valls Gómez, Kevin Luna Velarte, Amber Victoria Devigne, María Luisa Gil Orero, Angeles Rosana Obiang Nchama, Alvaro Lupiañez Martínez, Andreu Ferrer Carceller, Linh Ta Phuong, Marina Redondo López, Ana Cristina Lavao Bosch, Marta María Navarro Vallés, and María Huerta Pérez.