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Consultants for WHO’s SECURE, Wellcome-ICARS-Danish Gov’t AMR event

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

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Initiatives for addressing AMR in the environment: Reports from a joint WT, CDC, and UK-SIN project

Dear All: The United Kingdom Science and Innovation Network (UK-SIN), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC), and the Wellcome Trust (WT) have recently released a white paper highlighting the potential for the environment (e.g., soil and water) to be a source of antimicrobial-resistant microbes that can affect human health: Executive Summary: Initiatives

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ADVANCE-ID seeks antibiotic for P2/3 development Asia!

Dear All, Yow! Led by David Paterson,  ADVANCE-ID (ADVANcing Clinical Evidence in Infectious Diseases) is a research group launched March 2023 as a network of more than 30 hospitals across Asia. The exciting news is that ADVANCE-ID have just announced that they are seeking a novel antimicrobial agent vs. MDR Gram-negatives that could be advanced in the clinic

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RFP: Climate-Sensitive Infectious Disease Modelling

Dear All, And now for something really different! With the recent GRAM report (20 Jan 2022 newsletter) showing that AMR is linked to more deaths that HIV or malaria (#AMRSOS! Andrew Jack and FT team have some great graphics for this … check them out!), we now have an absolutely fascinating call from Wellcome Trust for

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International AMR Action! 21 Sep Wellcome Trust-UNGA event / 12-13 Oct Call to Action (Berlin)

Dear All:  The international conversation continues apace following the recent DRIVE-AB meeting on antibiotic incentives. There are two further important meetings coming up that you may wish to know about. First, Wellcome Trust is co-hosting a side-event with the UN Foundation during the UN General Assembly on 21 Sep (yes, this week!). The side event is from 8a-10a in

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PASTEUR action; Wellcome convenes Global R&D discussion!

Dear All, Two items for your attention today: an immediate action for you to take to support PASTEUR plus a launch event for a major Wellcome Trust project for your calendar.  First, as you may recall, the Oversights & Investigations Subcommittee of the US House Energy & Commerce Committee recently held a hearing about the impact of AMR.

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