Webinar: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2024
Aligned with the 2024 World AMR Awareness Week theme, Educate. Advocate. Act Now, this webinar hosted by the AMR Industry Alliance brings together global experts to discuss the outcomes of recent UN and ministerial meetings on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and actionable next steps for continued progress on AMR. Featured speakers from the WHO, CARB-X, and others will discuss the critical role of diagnostics in stewardship and access, concrete steps toward expanding access to antimicrobials, and how to catalyze research and development. This webinar will also feature the announcement of the 2024 AMR Industry Alliance Stewardship Prize winner.
19 November 2024
14:00 – 15:30 CET
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Agenda:
Remarks on the UN High-level Meeting and Global High-level Ministerial Meeting: What Comes Next?
James Anderson (AMR Industry Alliance Board Chair) will address the outcomes of the UN High-level Meeting on AMR and the 4th Global Ministerial Meeting, held in Saudi Arabia, and next steps for the global community in addressing AMR.
Action on Access – Concrete Steps After the HLM
Alexandra Cameron (WHO), Gareth Morgan (Shionogi), and James Pfitzer (Viatris) will address concrete steps towards expanding access to antimicrobials, including discussion of the Access Roadmap, published in 2024, and what the outcome of the HLM means for the Roadmap and the barriers identified within it. Panelists will also discuss the SECURE initiative and its potential to increase access – and what its future looks like.
The Future of Antimicrobials: The Right Catalysts for Research & Development
In this fireside chat, Matt McEnany (AMR Industry Alliance Secretariat) and Kevin Outterson (CARB-X) will address the dire need for laboratory professionals to fuel the research and development pipeline, and the ways in which countries are and aren’t investing in new antimicrobials.
Setting the Stage: Diagnostics as the Key to Stewardship and Access
While the importance of diagnostics is now built into the Political Declaration on AMR, increased investment in diagnostic infrastructure is still needed. Raghu Sriram (WHO) will address the WHO’s efforts to expand access to and utilization of diagnostic testing through infrastructure building. Diane Flayhart (BD and Chair of the Alliance’s Appropriate Use Working Group) will address diagnostics in national action plans, and the impact of rapid diagnostic testing on AMS efforts in Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, India and the US as explored in a recent study. Sandi Holgate (Tygerberg Hospital), Siril Kullaya (PATH Tanzania), and Maneesh Paul S. (Microvioma) will join both speakers to discuss the critical role that diagnostics play in stewardship efforts, the importance of including them in national action plans, and the need to foster private-public partnerships to further good stewardship practices like the use of diagnostics.
Announcement of the 2024 Stewardship Prize Winner
Featured speakers:
- James Anderson, Board Chair, AMR Industry Alliance
- Alexandra Cameron, Senior Expert, Unit Head A.I. Impact Initiatives and Research Coordination, Antimicrobial Resistance Division, World Health Organization
- Gareth Morgan, SVP Portfolio Management, Shionogi
- James Pfitzer, Senior Director Global Policy, Corporate Affairs, Viatris
- Matt McEnany, AMR Industry Alliance Secretariat
- Kevin Outterson, Executive Director, CARB-X
- Raghu Sriram, Technical Officer, Control and Response Strategies (CRS), SPC Department, AMR Division, WHO
- Diane Flayhart, Director of Global Public Health AMR, BD
- Sandi Holgate, Paediatrician, Neonatal Division of Tygerberg Hospital, Stellenbosch University; NeoAMS Program in South Africa, 2023 AMR Industry Alliance Stewardship Prize Winner
- Siril Kullaya, Technical Project Director, PATH Tanzania
- Maneesh Paul S., CEO, Microvioma