Improved hygiene and better prevention and treatment have diminished the incidence of infectious diseases particularly in industrialized countries. However, increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR), emergence of new pathogens, together with changes in pathogen distribution due to altered climate and mobility are global challenges for humankind. Leibniz INFECTIONS aims to establish an interdisciplinary research agenda and opens up new avenues of communication across disciplines. New strategies and methods for early warning and outbreak management systems based on the One Health perspective will be developed to control spread of pathogens. For this endeavor, 15 Leibniz institutions from biomedical, pharmaceutical, environmental, agricultural and socio-economic science joined forces led by the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, and also co-associated German resort research institutions, the Robert-Koch- and the Friedrich-Löffler-Institute.
