Nikkei Inc. and AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)) jointly held the First Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC).

At this first sub-committee, participants from academia, the Government, industry and civil society discussed potential policy options to ensure sustainable research and development (R&D) for antimicrobials.

Participants agreed to continue to discuss the state of the antimicrobial market in working groups toward the eventual formulation of a concrete proposal on ways to incentivize antimicrobial R&D in the future.

■Overview
Date and time: Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Organizer: AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: HGPI)

■Program
The role of the AMR sub-committee
Mitsuru Miyata (Adviser, Medical and Healthcare Division, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.)
Shigeru Omi (President, Japan Community Health care Organization (JCHO) / Regional Director Emeritus, Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO), World Health Organization (WHO))

AMR Alliance Japan
Ryoji Noritake (CEO, Board Member, Health and Global Policy Institute (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat))
Kazuhiro Tateda (President, The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases / President, The Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology / Professor, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University)

Discussion —Policy options to revitalize the antimicrobial industry
From the perspective of the Cabinet Secretariat:
Hiroyuki Noda (Councilor, Coordination Office of Measures on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Office of Pandemic Influenza and New Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response, Cabinet Secretariat）

From the perspective of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:
Manami Yanagawa (Chief, Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases Control Division, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW))

From the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry
Takeo Morooka (Executive Officer, Head of Health Policy and Corporate Support, MSD K.K.) Takuko Sawada (Executive Vice President, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)

Chairs:
Shigeru Omi (President, Japan Community Health care Organization (JCHO) / Regional Director Emeritus, Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO), World Health Organization (WHO))
Kazuhiro Tateda (President, The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases / President, The Japanese Society for Clinical Microbiology / Professor, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University)

Facilitator:
Ryoji Noritake (CEO, Board Member, Health and Global Policy Institute (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat))