About the award
Sponsored by New Zealand Food Safety, the AMR Award recognises an individual, team, or organisation who demonstrate best practice antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention and control practices, or pioneering new and innovative approaches to reducing antibiotic use.
Now in its second year, this award celebrates those making a real difference in reducing AMR risks in New Zealand. Highlighting their work celebrates the positive impact they make.
The work to reduce AMR risks might include:
- spreading awareness about AMR
- preventing and controlling disease
- using strong biosecurity practices
- creating animal or plant health programmes to reduce the need for antibiotics
- promoting responsible antibiotic use
- reducing unnecessary antibiotic use.
The award winner will be announced during World AMR Awareness Week (18 to 24 November 2026). The winner will receive a certificate of recognition and commemorative plaque.
Nominations and eligibility
Nominations are open to anyone working with or within the animal health or plant health sectors in New Zealand.
Your nomination should describe activities or practices that the nominees or applicants have put in place to help reduce antibiotic use and drivers for antibiotic use. This could include
- AMR Awareness: Measures to educate prescribers and users of antibiotics about AMR and infection prevention and control measures, such as increased uptake of vaccinations and implementation of animal or plant health programmes.
- Infection prevention and control: Effective and novel approaches to infection prevention and control, including implementation of biosecurity policies, animal health programmes and vaccine use.
- Antimicrobial stewardship: Demonstrate the development and use of guidelines, policies, and recommendations to improve judicious antibiotic use by prescribers and users.
- Monitoring and surveillance: Effective recording, monitoring and benchmarking of antimicrobial use, with review of trends and innovative ways to reduce antimicrobial use.
An individual, team or organisation can be nominated, and self-nominations are also accepted.
How to submit a nomination
Complete the online entry form by 5pm on 27 September 2026.
Online entry form to AMR Award
Previous award winners
In 2025, we congratulated Taranaki Veterinary Centre for concerted efforts to reduce antimicrobial resistance in cows under their care.
They are a leading example of the strong behaviour change in staff and clients that can be achieved when focussing on the whole ecosystem of antibiotic stewardship.
