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Engaging DoxyPEP in Scotland

Engaging DoxyPEP in Scotland

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Research Insights

Engaging DoxyPEP in Scotland is a multi-stage research and engagement project led by Dr Chase Ledin in the School of Population Health Sciences and Edinburgh Medical School at the University of Edinburgh. This project explores biosocial aspects of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) within sexual health, genitourinary medicine, and health promotion. Ethical approval was received from Edinburgh Medical School Research Ethics Committee (25-EMREC-017).

The following sections present an overview of each stage in the research and engagement process(es). For more detailed descriptions of each stage, including core activities and outcomes, please click the link(s) provided.

You can also keep up to date about our previous and ongoing activities on our News & Events page.

Stage 1: Understanding DoxyPEP

Understanding DoxyPEP is a qualitative study of medical and healthcare perspectives of DoxyPEP prescribing, integration, and access within UK healthcare settings. This stage includes 20 semi-structured interviews with doctors, nurses, health promotion specialists, microbiologists, and other allied healthcare practitioners. This research is funded by the UoE Moray Endowment Fund (2025) and the Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness (2025)

Learn more about Stage 1: Understanding DoxyPEP

Stage 2: Engaging DoxyPEP

Engaging DoxyPEP is an engagement project that brings together community partners and stakeholders, including clinicians, health outreach workers, third-sector organisations, and community members, to debate and discuss the impact of DoxyPEP on sexual communities in Scotland. This project is funded by the UKRI ESRC Impact Accelerator Account (2025-26).

Learn more about Stage 2: Engaging DoxyPEP

Stage 3: Assembling Queer AMS

Assembling Queer Antibiotic Stewardship is an engagement project that involves community members in the co-production of public health materials addressing antibiotic resistance and stewardship in sexual communities.

Learn more about Stage 3: Assembling Queer Antibiotic Stewardship

Stage 4: Reimagining AMS in Sexual Communities

Reimagining AMS in Sexual Communities is a forthcoming qualitative study which will explore how antimicrobial stewardship can be imagined and integrated into existing sexual harm reduction paradigms. This study will involve clinicians, health promotion specialists, and community members, using sociological theories and practices, to develop new models of harm reduction and produce collaborative AMR monitoring, stewardship training, and educational materials for sexual communities in the UK.

Learn more about Stage 4: Reimagining AMS in Sexual Communities

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