Datum
März 10, 2025 - März 11, 2025
Zeit
Ganztägig
Veranstaltungsort
Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – a growing threat to human health – is one of the most difficult global health policy challenges in the 21st century. The arrival of antibiotics in the mid-20th century ushered in a new era in which infectious diseases receded as a cause of death, life expectancy grew rapidly in many parts of the world and this triumph of science seemed to be permanent. But nature struck back and almost an entire century of medical progress may soon be lost. Under pressure from a very widespread use of antimicobials, resistant mutations of pathogens have proliferated, undermined antimicrobial effectiveness and enabled the scourge of deadly infections to make a strong comeback, compounded by newly emerging pathogens and altered pathogen distribution that global warming and worldwide human mobility are facilitating. Actionable knowledge to address these issues is scarce and awareness of evidence-based solutions among policy makers – and society at large – badly lacking.
The well-established Leibniz Research Alliance „INFECTIONS in an Urbanizing Word – Humans, Animals, Environments” pursues an interdisciplinary agenda to close some of the relevant knowledge gaps and develops evidence-based solutions. A unique feature of the LRA INFECTIONS is that it combines pathogen-focused disciplines, i.e. microbiology, immunology and ecology, with expertise in the development of new health technologies and relevant decision and behavioral sciences, such as health economics, political economy and other social sciences. It is the leading interdisciplinary research alliance on AMR in Germany. Its symposium “Antimicrobial resistance: The silent pandemic” will be the culmination of successful work over the past four years. During two days on March 10–11, 2025 a select group of LRA INFECTIONS researchers, including early career scientists and doctoral students, as well as a range of invited speakers, who are leaders in their respective fields, will talk about their most important new insights and latest empirical findings in the context of AMR.
The fourth and final session will be different. A keynote lecture by Ramanan Laxminarayan of Princeton University, best known as the president of the One Health Trust in Washington DC, will set the stage for a panel of international thought leaders, AMR practitioners and policy makers discussing “Policy strategies to overcome the global AMR crisis”. Panelists include Anand Anandkumar, the co-founder and CEO of Bugworks Research in India, the pioneering developer of new antibiotics tailored to the needs of resource-poor settings, Heiman Wertheim, the chair of Radboud University’s Center of Infectious Diseases in the Netherlands and influential AMR advisor to the WHO, and Lothar Wieler, the former president of the Robert Koch-Institute and member of the Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance, as well as the German government’s recently appointed AMR Ambassador Muna Abu Sin and the European Commission’s AMR Policy Coordinator Sigrid Weiland. Moderated by one of Germany’s most respected science journalists, Christina Berndt of Süddeutsche Zeitung, this session is meant to bring research into a direct dialogue with decision makers, draw attention of the broader public and encourage the media to report on the issues, including the symposium and unique interdisciplinary research to be presented.
The symposium should be of particular interest to fellow researchers, professors and doctoral students, practitioners of medicine, healthcare and insurance managers, nurses, patient organizations and patients, developers of new antibiotics, research-based pharmaceutical firms, the health policy community, science journalists, teachers and the general public. Since the venue’s seating capacity is limited, we kindly ask to register as early as possible.
Further information and registration can be found on the symposium website: https://fzb-veranstaltungen.de/infections-symposium2025
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