Nikkei Inc. and AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)) jointly held 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).

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 second meeting of WG2, participants exchanged opinions on the size of pull incentives needed in Japan, and the type of data needed to justify incentives of that size.

On the basis of WG discussions, participants agreed to join the third sub-committee on AMR and continue to work hard toward the eventual formulation of a concrete proposal on ways to incentivize antimicrobial R&D in the future.

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: Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Organizer: AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: HGPI)

■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)
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)
Miki Shirakawa (The Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) Project, Nikkei Inc.)
Chiaki Toma (The Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) Project, Nikkei Inc.)
Mio Wakasa (The Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) Project, Nikkei Inc.)

■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)