The rise of antimicrobial resistance in human pathogens has become a public health emergency, contributing to ?700,000 deaths annually and a projected 10 million yearly deaths by 2050. Its burden is highest in developing countries due to inadequate sanitation and poorly regulated antimicrobial use in medicine and agriculture that select for emergence, amplification, and the spread of new resistance genes in microbial populations. My research aims to understand the transmission dynamics of resistance genes and resistant bacteria between animal and human populations in Lima, Peru. I am a microbiologist, public health researcher and assistant professor at Universidad Cayetano Heredia and wish to visit the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to develop analytical skills in bacterial genomics and bioinformatics to enable the study of pathogen dynamics in local populations and inform public health interventions to reduce the burden of infectious disease in Peru.