News and updates

Understanding antibiotic resistance: impact of a longitudinal education intervention for children

We're proud to share our research evaluating Germ's Journey’s interactive, story‑driven workshop, designed to help primary school children understand antimicrobial stewardship and the threat of antibiotic resistance.

Our research shows that the creative intervention achieved a significant improvement in children's understanding that was maintained for at least a year, demonstrating its potential as a model for long-term public health education and a powerful reminder of why early education matters.

Safer Space® is proud to announce its sponsorship of the Global Handwashing Day Awareness Event & Fundraiser organised by Germ’s Journey® and Knowlex, reinforcing its mission to promote the future of hand-hygiene.

On 15th October 2025, the world marked Global Handwashing Day and to celebrate it, Germ's Journey aimed to secure the record: Largest hand hygiene lesson (multiple venues). For this title attempt, we attempted to get the largest number of primary school children taking part in an online handwashing lesson at the same time. 

Germ Busting Washathon!

UK schools across the land, wash your hands!

On 15th October this year, the world will mark Global Handwashing Day and to celebrate it, Germ's Journey are aiming to secure the record for the largest number of children taking part in an online hand washing lesson at the same time

New research published in MDPI Education Sciences

Germ's Journey resources significantly increased children’s understanding of respiratory tract infection prevention, fundamental for limiting the severity of COVID-19 cases moving forward & preparing for future pandemics.

Germ's Journey have published a new paper in The Microbiology Society's journal - Access Microbiology, about our hand-hygiene educational intervention in India

Germ's Journey have developed a brand new comic book, based on Antibiotic Resistance for children aged 7-11 years.

Online webinar with Knowlex featuring Prof Katie Laird and Prof Sarah Younie

This year, outbreaks of poliomyelitis have been occurring in various countries (USA and Israel for instance) highlighting a potential come back of poliomyelitis. In the United Kingdom even though no poliomyelitis cases were observed, circulation of vaccine-derived poliovirus in London has been confirmed by the detection of polioviruses in sewage

After being approached by numerous individuals about contributing to the project, we are now sharing our Just Giving page to allow A Germs Journey to continue it invaluable work in the area of health-hygiene education and reach even more countries.

The Germ's Journey team are excited to announce the development of a brand new book that has been specifically created for older people living with dementia to use alongside young children. Co-created alongside those living with dementia, nurses and researchers in the field, the aim of the book is to increase awareness of respiratory disease and improve infection prevention practices amongst both children and adults.

So far, over 1,500 books have been donated nationwide to care providers, local councils and governments to distribute to those living with dementia.

FREE Germ's Journey Train-the-Trainer workshops in Kettering, Northampton, and Birmingham

From 9am BST Wednesday 26th May 2021

Follow on the A Germ’s Journey YouTube Live Stream.

A Germ’s Journey is hosting our first global newsdesk, an international dialogue about the challenge of supporting community relevant public health communications. The newsdesk will bring together community health and community media practitioners and advocates from around the world, so that we can share our experiences, insight and learning about how community-focussed communications practices for public health have been tested during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Our newly published book: Bye Bye Germs: Be a Handwashing Super Hero which was developed to teach children in a fun and engaging way about respiratory disease and the importance of handwashing has received great feedback from parents and teachers regarding its effectiveness!

Our latest research on improving young children’s handwashing behaviour and understanding of germs has been published!

We're excited to share our latest research article ‘Evaluating approaches to designing effective Co-Created hand-hygiene interventions for children in India, Sierra Leone and the UK’ published in PLOS ONE!

Working with RKH and Pal, we've launched our new website

Help your children to understand the spread of Coronavirus and the importance of handwashing in a fun and engaging way.