National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Strategic Plan 2026–2030.

This Strategic Plan reflects the government's commitment to improving and expanding antimicrobial resistance monitoring and data sharing and to translating decades of surveillance data into actionable research and evidence-based policy, moving from the consideration that antimicrobial resistance continues to pose a serious and evolving threat to public health. The Vision of the Plan aims at a future free of illnesses and deaths from antimicrobial resistant bacteria. The Mission provides for conducting nationwide bacterial antimicrobial resistance monitoring in humans, food-producing animals, foods, and other sources, and to disseminate high quality data for timely actions to protect public health and monitor progress. The Strategic Plan focuses on goals: 1) supporting sustainable and innovative approaches for national antimicrobial resistance monitoring in foodborne bacteria; 2) using current and emerging technologies to inform development of optimal interventions to enrich the understanding of antimicrobial resistance; 3) strengthening collaboration, communication and sharing of data; 4) assessment of the effectiveness and impact of antimicrobial resistance prevention and stewardship practices.