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WHO-FAO-OIE-UNEP survey on a multi-stakeholder AMR platform

Dear All (this newsletter experiments with an Executive Summary/Details format; let me know what you think), (Executive Summary) As a further support for implementation of recommendations from the UN Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG AMR), the Tripartite Plus (WHO-FAO-OIE-UNEP) are seeking to create a Partnership Platform that will “engage institutions representing states, markets and

25 August 2021 No Comments

WHO seeks Consultant to lead Campaign to Prevent Non-Prescription Antibiotic Use!

Dear All, The WHO is looking for a consultant to develop a campaign to prevent non-prescription antibiotic sales! This 4-month contract sounds intriguing to say the least. This position is tied into (and culminates with) the annual World AMR Awareness Week — it’s interesting to see how the WHO is working to prevent this problem! Lots of

17 July 2023 No Comments

AlphaFold: Highly accurate protein structure prediction for WHO priority pathogens

Dear All, I learned today from our colleagues at WHO that Alphafold has recently added the proteome of nearly all the WHO priority pathogens to their library of highly accurate prediction of protein structures. Alphafold was new to me and is amazing! Per our colleagues at WHO: AlphaFold is an AI system developed by DeepMind that

27 January 2022 No Comments

WHO pipeline review; JPIAMR call on “Disrupting drug resistance using innovative design”

Dear All, First up, we have an update to WHO’s review of the clinical antibacterial pipeline. The review by Butler et al. in AAC (and for transparency, know that I am a co-author) covers both traditional and non-traditional products. It found that as of 30 June 2021: There were 76 antibacterial agents in clinical development

17 January 2022 No Comments

WAAW events: Global voices, FT’s antibiotic dashboard, JPIAMR calls, FAO Action Plan!

Dear All, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) was such a mad scramble! So many events … just no way to attend everything. Some of the highlights in and around WAAW (not everything was precisely within the WAAW dates, thank goodness!) for me were: Andrew Jack and the team at FT (Financial Times) have released an

3 December 2021 No Comments

WHO Essential Medicines List (EML): Antibiotic Book promotes AWaReness

Dear All, WHO have released for consultation an updated draft of their EML (Essential Medicines List) Antibiotic handbook. For those not familiar with it, WHO’s EML (now in its 22nd edition!) provides a guide to a core set of medicines that every country should have. The antibiotic-focused version does this for antibiotics and then adds

21 November 2021 No Comments

WHO RFP: Help build the One Health Research Agenda on AMR

Dear All, WHO are looking for multidisciplinary university groups or other scientific institutions to support the development of a One Health Priority Research Agenda on AMR! Per the RFP on the UN website (https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/146908), the terms of reference include scientific and methodological support for the following activities: Review of the grey literature and policy analysis of

2 October 2021 No Comments

WHO webinars: A costing/budgeting tool for National Action Plans on AMR

Dear All, WHO are really busy these days! I was interested to see that WHO are hosting a pair of webinars entitled “The WHO Costing and Budgeting Tool for National Action Plans on AMR.” The webinars have the same basic content but different time zones. Here’s the agenda for one of them: Introduction Mr Anand Balachandran

4 October 2021 No Comments

WHO 2021 Pipeline update: Share your preclinical antibacterial/antifungal projects!

Dear All, WHO are working steadily to maintain a comprehensive view of the clinical and preclinical pipelines. Such reports are invaluable in showing policymakers the need for continue Push/Pull in this area. Their 2020 clinical & pre-clinical antibacterial pipeline report was released in April of this year and discussed in detail in a 14 Apr 2021

2 October 2021 No Comments

Job openings with WHO and with ICARS (Copenhagen)

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

12 May 2021 No Comments

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