How Stories Help Educate About Antimicrobial Resistance
“To truly engage the public with AMR, we must go beyond facts alone. We need storytelling, connection, and approaches that help people feel why antibiotics matter.”
Our facilitator community spans across the globe, which enriches our collective learning and the diversity of practice. This month, we’re celebrating Becky McCall, PhD, a medical journalist, health specialist and digital storytelling facilitator who focuses on the human impacts of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Becky recently completed her PHD, using digital storytelling as a methodology to capture the personal experience of infection and AMR. Through public screenings and discussions, the relational aspect of digital storytelling is helping to raise public awareness of this critical issue and challenge us all to think differently about how we use antibiotics.
Your Story, Told Your Way
The website Storybug is the result of Dr. McCall’s doctoral project and an example of more effective public-facing communication around a subject that is of growing interest. Dr. McCall is supporting a growing list of storytellers keen to share their personal experience of drug-resistant infection and/or antibiotic use.
Learn more about Becky’s work here - https://storybug.org.uk/
A Personal Experiences, Far From Alone
“My UTI story needs to be shared. It’s a lonely place with stigma and cultural pressures... lack of understanding.”
This is the story of how a recurrent, antibiotic resistant urinary tract infection (UTI) turned a young woman’s life upside down.
Becky McCall is a Level 1 CLDST Digital Storytelling Facilitator, Medical Journalist and Founder of Storybug. She is dedicated to using story to attain positive outcomes in research.
