The AMR Consortium of the Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium, for which AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)) serves as the secretariat, discussed future AMR countermeasures during the 9th NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference, organized by Nikkei INC. and co-sponsored by Financial Times.

During the discussion, participants shared future challenges regarding AMR countermeasures and reported on activities such as a “Survey to Identify Key Messages for Public Understanding of the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)” and “Recommendations of the G7 Hiroshima Summit in 2023 Necessary Actions for AMR Control, Starting with the Introduction of Pull Incentives.”

■Overview (titles omitted)
Date: November 16, 2022 (Wed)
Program: Agenda 6 – AMR

NIKKEI FT Infectious Diseases Conference Chairs

Shigeru Omi (Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Chairman, Representative, Board of Director / World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for Western Pacific)
Nahoko Shindo (Senior Advisor, WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE), World Health Organization)

Agenda 6 – AMR

Moderator

Kazuhiro Tateda (Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases / Toho University School of Medicine Professor)

Presentation

Dame Sally Davis (UK Government Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance / UK Department of Health and Social Care)
Dagmar Reitenbach (Head of the Global Health Team, German Federal Ministry of Health)

Discussion (Japanese syllabary order)

Norio Ohmagari (National Center for Global Health and Medicine Hospital Disease Control and Prevention Center Director)
Kazumasa Oguro (Hosei University School of Economics Professor)
Kanako Kitahara (Office for COVID-19 and Other Emerging Infectious Disease Control / Counsellor: Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan)
Shinichi Kohguchi (Senior Stewardship Officer Stewardship Development Department, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd.)
Takuko Sawada (Director and Vice Chairperson of the Board, Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)
Atsunobu Takeshita (President and Chief Executive Officer Publisher NIKKEI Science, INC.)
Yasunori Tawaragi (Environmental Management and Global Health Group Sustainability Promotion Department, DAIICHI SANKYO CO., LTD.)
Eiji Hinoshita (Assistant Minister for Global Health and Welfare, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan)
Greg Frank (Director, Global Public Policy, MSD)
Mitsuru Miyata (Miyata Institute of Technologies, K.K.)

■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) 
November 7, 2020 The 7th NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference – The AMR Consortium of the Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)
December 14, 2020 The Fourth Meeting of the AMR Consortium of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)
March 12, 2021 The Fifth Meeting of the AMR Consortium of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)
May 28, 2021 The Second Meeting of Working Group 3 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)
June 30, 2021 The Fourth 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)
July 7, 2021 The Sixth Meeting of the AMR Consortium of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)
October 28, 2021 The 8th NIKKEI FT Communicable Diseases Conference – The AMR Consortium of the Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)
December 17, 2021 The Third Meeting of Working Group 3 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)
July 11, 2022 The Seventh Meeting of the AMR Consortium of the Nikkei FT Communicable Diseases Conference Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC)