About
The One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Research Programme (OHARP) is jointly funded by the Ministry of Health (MOH); National Environment Agency (NEA); National Parks Board, (NParks); PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency; and Singapore Food Agency (SFA). It is administered by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases to support One Health antimicrobial resistance (AMR) research across the human, animal, food and environmental sectors in Singapore.
The objective of the OHARP is to steer the national One Health AMR research agenda; commission multi-disciplinary and multi-sectorial studies that will impact Singapore's AMR policies and interventions; foster partnerships with academia and harness their expertise to find One Health solutions; and promote synergies and opportunities for collaboration between sectors.
The OHARP grant calls have closed. The list of awarded projects from 2021 – 2022 are listed below. Funding has been awarded to the following research studies:
| Principal Investigator | A/Prof Angela Chow |
| Project Title | The VALUE of Companion SteWARdS: Understanding the facilitators and barriers to appropriate antibiotic prescribing in veterinary clinics for companion animals in Singapore |
| Institution | Tan Tock Seng Hospital |
| Year of Award | 2021 |
| Principal Investigator | A/Prof Yann Boucher |
| Project Title | The St-John's Island Resistome (SIR) project: a tractable microcosm of antibiotic resistance transmission across One Health domains in Singapore |
| Institution | National University of Singapore |
| Year of Award | 2021 |
| Principal Investigator | A/Prof Wee Hwee Lin |
| Project Title | The socioeconomic impact of antimicrobial resistance in Singapore: A One Health perspective |
| Institution | National University of Singapore |
| Year of Award | 2022 |
| Principal Investigator | A/Prof Andrea Kwa |
| Project Title | Understanding the transmission of CTXM ESBL genes between different One Health reservoirs |
| Institution | Singapore General Hospital |
| Year of Award | 2022 |
| Principal Investigator | Prof Hu Jiang Yong |
| Project Title | Co-selection and Horizontal Gene Transfer of AMR in Aquaculture and AMR Transmission to Animals |
| Institution | National University of Singapore |
| Year of Award | 2022 |
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OHARP Grant Documents
Terms & Conditions; Policy Documents
Post Award Forms
Claims Forms; Budget Projection Template
Reporting Forms
Contact
For enquiries on OHARP, please email oh_amr_research@ncid.sg.
The
NCID Catalyst Grant, funded by the Ministry of Health, Singapore and administered by
NCID,
aims to encourage inter-institutional collaborative research projects,
workshops and exchanges in the fields of infectious diseases and public health,
between new Principal Investigators and researchers of academic institutions and
hospitals. The NCID Catalyst
Grants are intended to facilitate strategic and innovative clinical and public
health research in infectious diseases within Singapore and the region.
The list of awarded projects from 2018 grant call onwards are provided as below:
| 2022 Grant Call |
Project Title
| Principal Investigator | Host Institution |
Factors
involved in the Prescription of Antimicrobials Amongst Primary Practitioners
for Urinary Tract Infections
| Dr
Wilnard Tan Yeong Tze
| National
Centre for Infectious Diseases
|
A mobile app based
serious game to increase public awareness of appropriate antibiotic use in the
community
| Dr Huang Zhilian
| National Centre for Infectious Diseases
|
Identification and
characterisation of drug resistant SARS-CoV-2 isolates from COVID patients on
antiviral therapy
| Dr Conrad Chan En Zuo
| National Centre for Infectious Diseases
|
Comparative
phylogenomics to understand diversity, population structure and antimicrobial
resistance in the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)
| Dr Jeanette Teo
| National
University Hospital
|
Investigating the
ability of rifabutin to address inducible macrolide resistance in clinical
isolates of Mycobacterium abscessus
| Dr Dinah binte Aziz
| National
University of Singapore
|
Prevalence and impact
of antibiotic resistance among preterm infants with sepsis: a population-based
cohort study
| Dr Goh Guan Lin
| KK
Women’s & Children’s Hospital
|
Breaking down the
bacterial cell wall to identify new antibiotic targets
| Dr Qiao Yuan
| Nanyang
Technological University
|
Characterizing a
hypothetical protein involved in the programmed cell death of human malaria
Plasmodium falciparum
| Dr Su Tran To Chinh
| Bioinformatics
Institute, A*STAR
|
2021 Grant Call |
Project Title
| Principal Investigator
| Host Institution
|
Investigation of etiology and immunopathology of persistent inflammatory
tissue damage in patients with previous COVID-19 infection (post mortem study)
| Dr Chan Yu Kit
| Tan Tock Seng Hospital
|
Sex worker risks and vulnerabilities in Singapore: A natural experiment
to establish frameworks for HIV/STIs prevention in a post-COVID-19 era
| Dr Lee Pei Hua
| Tan Tock Seng Hospital
|
A demonstration study to assess feasibility and acceptability of
pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery, PrEP telehealth, and effectiveness of
a sexually transmitted infections counselling service for young men who have
sex with men in Singapore
| Dr Wong Chen Seong
| Tan Tock Seng Hospital
|
Serology Response following COVID 19 vaccination amongst inflammatory
bowel disease patients on immunomodulator and/or biologic
| Dr Ennaliza Salazar
| Singapore
General Hospital
|
Integrated next-generation sequencing and typing pipeline for
carbapenemase-encoding plasmids in real-time (PlasmidSeq-RT)
| Dr Karrie Ko
| Singapore
General Hospital
|
Polymyxin B Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Singapore
| Dr Kelvin Goh
| Singapore
General Hospital
|
Evaluation of Spiral Microfluidic (SM) for Early Identification of
Bloodstream Infection (BSI) Pathogens with MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry (MS)
| Dr Ngow Yeen Shian
| Singapore
General Hospital
|
2020 Grant Call
|
Project Title
| Principal Investigator
| Host Institution
|
The truth about antibiotic-taking behaviours
| Dr Elaine Lum
| DUKE-NUS Medical School
|
Airborne transmission of seasonal coronaviruses
| Dr Martin Linster
| DUKE-NUS Medical School
|
Barriers and corridors of gene flow in mosquito-borne disease
transmission
| Dr Nalini Puniamoorthy
| National University of Singapore
|
Prevalence and profile of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella
pneumoniae in Singapore public hospitals from 2015 to 2018
| Dr Vanessa Koh
| Tan Tock Seng Hospital
|
The roles of citrullinated Histones H3 and peptidylarginine deiminase 4
on cardiac dysfunction in Dengue virus infection
| Dr Andrew Teo
| Nanyang Technological University
|
Stigma and discrimination as factors in late diagnosis and treatment
presentation for people living with HIV
| Dr Ritu Jain
| Nanyang Technological University
|
Environmental contamination with drug-resistant Candida spp. and its
role in occult hospital transmission
| Dr Chew Ka Lip
| National University Hospital
|
2018 Grant Call
|
Project Title
| Principal Investigator
| Host Institution
|
A prospective study on the transmission dynamics of E coli ST131 in the
community
| Dr Mo Yin
| National University Hospital
|
Tweaking everyday objects to prevent the spread of AMR
| Dr Jean Sim Xiang Ying
| Singapore
General Hospital
|
For
enquiries on NCID Catalyst Grant, please email rco_grants@ncid.sg.
