Alison Sandeman

Dr Alison Sandeman is a Researcher at the Infection and Global Health Division within the School of Medicine, University of St Andrews. Her work focuses on antibiotic resistance, urinary tract infections, and public health interventions in East Africa.

• Current research spans environmental, socioeconomic, and behavioral drivers of antimicrobial resistance
• Active collaborations in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania
• Key contributor to the HATUA and CARE Consortia

Her recent publications analyze multidrug-resistant bacteria in urinary tract infections, the impact of pandemic conditions, and causal modeling of interventions. She leads dataset creation on coagulase-negative staphylococci in Tanzania and participates in projects addressing antibiotic stewardship through citizen science.

Geographic focus includes East Africa with fieldwork in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. Methodologies integrate cross-sectional studies, microbial analysis, and Bayesian network modeling.

She contributes to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to health and wellbeing (SDG3) and clean water (SDG6) through research on drug dispensing practices and infection control.