[Event Report] Joint Congress on Global Health 2023 Symposium “AMR as a Global Health Challenge” (64th Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine Conference, 38th Japanese Society of Global Health Conference, 27th Japanese Society of Travel Medicine Conference, 8th International Clinical Medicine Conference, Bunkyo City, Tokyo, November 24, 2023)
date : 12/8/2023
Tags: AMR
On November 24, Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) Manager Ms. Yui Kohno presented at the symposium “AMR as a Global Health Challenge” at the Joint Congress on Global Health held in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
The Joint Congress on Global Health 2023 was organized by the 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Tropical Medicine, the 38th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for International Health and Medicine, the 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Travel Medicine, and the 8th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Clinical Medicine under the theme “Towards a Sea of Global Health – Inclusive of Diversity and Richness”. This is the third congress following those in 2017 and 2020.
The presentation titled “AMR as a Global Health Challenge,” addressed the role of antibiotics in non-communicable diseases and the three major infectious diseases (i.e. HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria), the increase in foreign-type resistant bacteria, the innovation needed for antimicrobial drug development, and the importance of international collaboration and multi-stakeholder cooperation in AMR control.
Symposium “AMR as Global Health Challenge”
■Chair:
Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi (Director, IMUST Hospital, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo)
■Speakers:
Lecture 1 “AMR as a Global Health Challenge”
Yui Kohno (Manager, Health and Global Policy Institute)
Lecture 2 “The Japanese Government’s Response to AMR – From a Global Health Perspective”
Eiji Hinoshita (Assistant Minister for Global Health and Welfare, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
Lecture 3 “Efforts by the pharmaceutical industry to combat AMR”
Yasunori Tawaragi (Director, International Affairs, Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
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