The theme for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020 for the human health sector is “United to preserve antimicrobials.” Every year, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week aims to increase awareness of global […]

CARB-X participants include Nadia Cohen, Alliance Manager, who will present during the Accelerating AMR R&D section of the program at 10:40 EST, and Betsy Wonderly Trainor, Alliance Director, who will […]

Over the last year, Wellcome has mapped the global response to AMR to identify progress made since the UN High-Level Meeting on AMR held in 2016.  The analysis captures the […]

AMR in the Light of COVID-19 - A Webinar Series Each of us is now living in a world with a nearly untreatable virus - but COVID-19 is not the […]

Speakers: Prof Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director-General for Antimicrobial resistance, WHO Dr Manica Balasegaram, Executive Director, GARDP - Dr Dhanya Dharmapalan, paediatrician and member of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (PIDS), […]

In December 2019 SARS-CoV-2 the cause of COVID-19, was responsible for thousands of deaths in Wuhan, China. By March 11, 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 as a worldwide pandemic.The single most […]

Translating AMR R&D mapping into policy and action. The Global AMR R&D Hub, through its Dynamic Dashboard, is the global knowledge centre for AMR R&D. The Dynamic Dashboard captures and […]

Infectious diseases have always impacted human history, but in the past 50 years we have managed to control or eliminate some infectious diseases through improved hygiene, vaccination, antimicrobials, advances in medicine and public health policies. However, the current pandemic is a reminder that we need to continue to pursue our efforts to control these pathogens, […]

How can efforts to implement Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plans still progress despite the COVID-19 pandemic? There is no doubt COVID-19 currently represents the most obvious and urgent issue for global health security and the world is rightfully focused on tackling this pandemic. However, the challenges posed by COVID-19 are only a foretaste of what […]

The Milken Institute Future of Health Summit convenes the best minds in the world to confront the most significant health challenges by matching human, financial, scientific, and educational resources with […]