This online launch event aimed to:
- Explore these compelling new findings on the global burden of AMR and regional patterns and trends for over 88 pathogen-drug combinations
- Celebrate the global collaboration and 100’s of data partnerships that made this study possible
- Consider how data can be harnessed to support governments, health systems and civil society to act and reduce the human-cost of AMR
- Identify immediate actions that can help countries around the world protect their health systems against the threat of AMR
Speakers and panellists included:
- Dr Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director-General for Antimicrobial Resistance, World Health Organization
- Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on AMR
- Professor Christiane Dolecek, Senior Clinical Scientist, University of Oxford
- Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
- Dr Tim Jinks, Head of Intervention, Wellcome
- Dr Mirfin Mpundu, Director, ReAct Africa
- Professor Chris Murray, Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Dr Padmini Srikantiah, Deputy Director Pneumonia, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Dr Pol Vandenbroucke, Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer