Meet Super Sally, AMR fighter!

Trinity College has launched its first graphic short story to help raise awareness about growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

‘Super Sally, AMR fighter: a graphic short story’, depicts the Master of Trinity and UK Special Envoy on AMR, Dame Sally Davies, tackling superbugs – bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics, rendering the drugs powerless and leading to increasing numbers of people dying from infections worldwide.

The problem is so serious that without urgent action, AMR could kill 39 million people by 2050 – that’s three deaths every minute – according to the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project.

In Trinity’s graphic short story, created with artist Yulia Lapko, Super Sally’s antibiotic super power cures a ward full of people sickened by bacterial infection. The smiling patients are visibly relieved, but Super Sally is left in a weakened state.

‘This can’t go … I need allies and help,’ says Super Sally. Powered by her red-rocket boots, she lands – in super-hero style – in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters in New York.  She is ready for the High-Level Meeting on AMR on Thursday 26 September!

Trinity collaborated with artist Yulia Lapko, who is a Business Administrator in the Department of Pathology, to create ‘Super Sally.’ Originally from Kyiv in Ukraine, Yulia is a self-taught artist who recently co-authored with Professor Adrian Liston, Becoming a Scientist, which charts the varied careers and backgrounds of the Department’s academics. Yulia lives with her cat Penny and continues her art career, mainly focused on drawing people, alongside her day job at the Department of Pathology.

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