Nigerian AMR Sentinel: A Low-Resource Lab Dashboard for Real-Time Resistance Forecasting, Adaptation Tracking, and Stewardship Simulation Using Vivli AMR Register Data

I am Sub-Lieutenant Bamaiyi, a Nigerian Navy officer serving in the Nigerian Navy Hospital, Warri. I have seen first-hand how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is silently devastating healthcare across Sub-Saharan Africa. In our laboratories and hospitals, common pathogens are becoming resistant at alarming rates, leaving patients, especially the vulnerable, with limited treatment options and poorer outcomes. This crisis is particularly severe in low-resource settings like ours, where effective surveillance and stewardship tools are scarce.
I am developing the Nigerian AMR Sentinel, a lightweight, open-source web dashboard that integrates Vivli AMR Register global surveillance datasets with real sensitivity results from Nigerian laboratories. The tool provides clear resistance trend forecasts, calculates organism adaptation rates or manoeuvre speed, estimates years until critical resistance thresholds, and includes an interactive “Avert Simulator” that allows users to test the impact of practical stewardship interventions, such as reducing unnecessary antibiotic use by 20–50%.
My goal is not only to build a useful dashboard, but to contribute meaningfully to the fight against AMR in Sub-Saharan Africa. What makes this project different is its focus on practicality in low-resource environments. The dashboard runs on ordinary laptops, requires only simple CSV uploads, and is designed for everyday use by laboratory scientists and naval medical teams in Nigeria and across Sub-Saharan Africa. By bridging global Vivli surveillance data with local clinical isolates, we can generate country-relevant predictions and actionable insights to support national antibiotic stewardship policies.
This project will directly improve patient outcomes by enabling faster, more targeted antibiotic prescribing and reducing treatment failures. It will strengthen antimicrobial stewardship by providing clinicians and pharmacists with visible evidence of the impact of interventions. It will inform public health practice by generating country-specific insights for Nigeria’s Ministry of Health and national programs. Finally, it will strengthen health systems by providing a simple, low-resource tool that runs on ordinary laptops, builds local capacity, and reduces reliance on expensive external expertise.
I am deeply committed to this work because I believe practical, data-driven tools can help us slow the spread of resistance and protect lives across Sub-Saharan Africa. Access to the Vivli AMR Register datasets would allow me to validate and enhance the tool with high-quality global data, making it more robust and impactful.