Dear All, Today, 3 fabulous job opportunities! Could this be you or someone you know? The Global Strategy Lab focuses on transnational health threats and social inequalities; as part of their work, they are a WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance. They are hiring a couple of senior roles in Toronto. Both roles are initially for
Dear All, CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy) at the University of Minnesota has posted a full-time job offering for a Deputy Director! Here’s my quick summary drawn both from the posted job description and a brief sidebar with CIDRAP staff: The job is very senior (part of CIDRAP’s Executive Team) and spans research
Dear All, WHO continues on their streak of seeking support for their AMR-related work! Today we have a posting by the Tripartite Joint Secretariat on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) of a consultancy opening for an 11-month project that would support development of multisectoral guidance(s) on development and strengthening of the coordination mechanisms and governance structures for addressing AMR. Full details
Dear All, Today, 5 job great job opportunities! Could one of these be for you? And below that, a video from our Movies with Antibiotic Twist series! JPIAMR is hiring a Research Officer in Stockholm Goal: Support the international collaborations being developed by the Joint Programming Initiative on AMR (JPIAMR, www.jpiamr.eu) It is a full-time role
Dear All, First up today is a very interesting new workshop from FDA on 1-2 Sep entitled “Advancing the Development of Pediatric Therapeutics (ADEPT 7) Complex Innovative Trial Design.” In brief: “The Complex Innovative Trial Design Pilot Meeting Program (CID Program) facilitates and advances the use of complex and innovative trial designs that have the potential
Dear All, See below my signature: A 6-month consultancy with WHO to support the the SECURE initiative, a program to assist countries in accessing and sustainably managing new and existing antibiotics needed to cope with antimicrobial resistance (AMR). There’s not much online (yet) about SECURE: the best description I can find is in the Terms of Reference
Dear All, Today we have two interwoven topics to consider: An analysis of research priorities (not all technical!) and a triad of related initiatives, each of which comes with an opportunity for you to starting working on some of those priorities! First up, we have an excellent new paper summarizing the perspective of 32 experts
Dear All, Just below my signature you will find the full details on a recently posted WHO consultancy opportunity. It’s an intriguing 6-month project during which you would be responsible for the rollout and implementation of a new WHO Policy Guidance on the Implementation of Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities. This guidance will be rolled out in
Dear All, What a wild day … it feels like the flood gates have opened! I am still smiling about the amazing BARDA announcement of 10 further years of funding for an Antibacterial Accelerator! In parallel, six (6!) contractor/job openings have popped onto my radar! Three are with WHO and three are with the recently created
Dear All, Launched in 2018, the Global AMR R&D Hub was established following a call from G20 Leaders to address challenges and improve coordination and collaboration in global AMR R&D using a One Health approach. For a bit more more context on the AMR R&D hub, see this 25 Aug 2020 newsletter about the hub’s dashboard project and