Nikkei Inc. and AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)) jointly held the Third Meeting of Working Group 2 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC).

Working groups (WG) were established under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) in order to discuss the state of the antimicrobial market.

At this third meeting of WG2, participants discussed the finalization of policy recommendations on pull incentives to encourage antimicrobial research and development. The meeting covered issues related to pull incentives from the perspective of what the most appropriate design would be given the nature of the Japanese healthcare system.

In light of the situation with novel coronavirus, this meeting was carried out primarily online. On-site participants were encouraged to keep a safe physical distance from each other.

■Overview
Date and time: Thursday, October 8, 2020
Organizer: AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: HGPI), Nikkei Inc.

■Discussion
WG2 Members (alphabetical order by last name):
Yusuke Ariyoshi (Director, Healthcare Policy, Government Affairs Dept., Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)
Yoshiaki Gu (Chief, Information and Education Division, AMR Clinical Reference Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine)
Yuri Miura (Senior Industry Policy Specialist, Public and Industrial Policy, Health Policy, MSD K.K.)
Kazumasa Oguro (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University)
Takuko Sawada (Director of the Board, Executive Vice President, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)
Motoyuki Sugai (Director, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Yoshisaburo Takahashi (General Manager, Vaccine/Infections Dept., Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd.)
Yasunori Tawaragi (Director, International Affairs, Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
Akira Yuasa (Senior Manager, HTA/HEOR, Corporate Affairs, Health & Value, Pfizer Japan Inc.)

Moderator:
Yui Kohno (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat/Associate, HGPI)

Secretariat (alphabetical order by last name):
Yuiko Kondo (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat/Senior Associate, HGPI)
Matt McEnany (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat/Senior Manager, HGPI)
Tomohito Shibata (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat/Senior Associate, HGPI)
Mio Wakasa (The Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) Project, Nikkei Inc.)

 

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January 22, 2020 The First Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

March 11, 2020 The First Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

March 19, 2020 The Second Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

March 24, 2020 The First Meeting of Working Group 2 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

April 27, 2020 The Second Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

July 17, 2020 The Third Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

August 18, 2020 The Second Meeting of Working Group 2 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

August 27, 2020 The Fourth Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

September 14, 2020 The First Meeting of Working Group 3 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

September 23, 2020 The Third Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)

October 7, 2020 The Fifth Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)