Prof. Heike Schmitt works on the transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from the environment to humans and is combining fundamental and applied research with capacity building. In her part-time position at TU Delft, she focuses on fundamental research around microbial ecology of AMR in wastewater treatment. At the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), she is theme leader on AMR in the environment, and leads the environmental part of the Dutch National Action Plan on AMR. She has applied wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) for several years, focusing on wastewater analysis to monitor circulation of WHO resistant priority pathogens in the general population. She works on capacity building for international One Health surveillance of antibiotic resistance, and on the relevance of inadequate WASH for exposure to AMR, within the WHO Collaborating Center on Risk Assessment of Pathogens in Food and Water.  She is also scientific advisor at the European centre of excellence for sustainable water technology (WETSUS). She is coordinating several international research consortia and contributes to national and international advisory bodies.

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