We are grateful to the Wellcome Trust for funding the work that led to the assembly of this report. We are grateful to all of the participants who so generously shared ideas at our workshop, ‘Constructing Antimicrobial Resistance’ in August 2016. In particular, Hannah Landecker, Carmen McLeod, Ann Kelly, Scott Podolsky, Javier Lezaun, Hayley MacGregor, Nik Brown, Jamie Lorimer, Ming Lim, Helen Lambert, Sujatha Raman, Andrea Núñez Casal and Alice Street.