The AMR Consortium (Secretariat: AMR Alliance Japan) of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) shared key points of its policy recommendations calling for the creation of a pull incentive to encourage antimicrobial R&D at the 7th NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference.

Over the past year, the AMR Consortium has debated schemes that would be able to incentivize antimicrobial R&D in the future.
At the NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference, the Consortium shared key points from policy recommendations that were developed based on that debate, and considered points to be discussed further in the future.

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

■Overview
Date and time: Saturday, November 11, 2020
Program: Agenda4- Performance of PPP from the Conference and Future Issues

■Discussion
Participants from AMR Consortium of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases –Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) (alphabetical order by last name) :
Hajime Inoue (Deputy Director General, Office for Novel Coronavirus Disease Control, Cabinet Secretariat)
Shoji Miyagawa (Director, Division of Basic Medical Research, Department of Basic Medical Research, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development)
Takeo Morooka (Executive Officer, Head of Health Policy and Corporate Support, MSD K.K.)
Hiroyuki Noda (Councilor, Coordination Office of Measures on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Office of Pandemic Influenza and New Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response, Cabinet Secretariat）
Kazumasa Oguro (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University)

Jean-Pierre Paccaud（Director of Business Development and Corporate Strategy, Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership Foundation (GARDP)）
Takuko Sawada (Director of the Board, Executive Vice President, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)
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)

Yasunori Tawaragi (Director, International Affairs, Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
Yasuhide Yamada (Former Director-General of Coordination Office of Measures on　Emerging Infectious Diseases, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan Executive Officer/Executive Officer, SHIMIZU CORPORATION)

■Related events held as part of the “The Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)” project in and after FY2019 (chronological order)

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)

October 8, 2020 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)