Dear All, A fascinating job posting has gone up from WHO and the full text is just below my signature. You have to work your way through the acronyms, but here’s the essence: Last summer, WHO created the Antimicrobial Resistance Multi-Partner Trust Fund (AMR-MPTF). Go here for the announcement. The Trust Fund is a 5-year project
Dear All, WHO has just posted a job opening for a consultant in Geneva to help with spreading the word about AMR by (i) revamping the World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) campaigns and (ii) facilitating mainstreaming of antimicrobial resistance messages into major global events and scientific conferences. Full details from the posting are below my
Dear All, WHO’s GLASS Secretariat (Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System, link) have recently released a standardized method for estimating attributable mortality of antimicrobial resistant bloodstream infections. The webpage discussing the document is here; the document itself is here. GLASS currently collects surveillance data on infections in the blood as well as the urinary, gastrointestinal, and
Dear All, Just below my signature, you will find the details of WHO’s search for a consultant to help them create the global governance for AMR-related work. Sorting through the acronyms takes a bit of effort, but this role will sit at the heart of the global OneHealth agenda of the UN IACG (Interagency Coordination
Dear All, Wow, a news-heavy day … at least two more newsletters this weekend, I think. See below my signature a posting for a 6-month consultancy in Geneva with WHO to support the antimicrobial stewardship activities of the WHO’s Department of Global Coordination and Partnership on Antimicrobial Resistance. Deadline is 10 July 2020 for applications.
Dear All: First, the methods behind the WHO Priority Pathogens List (PPL, released on 25 Feb 2017) have now been published by Tacconelli et al. in Lancet Infectious Diseases along with an editorial by Tillottson. As further context while you review these excellent papers, you might also find it helpful to have to hand this slide deck comparing the WHO PPL, the 2013
Dear All: As you know, WHO produced a pipeline update with a cut-off date of 1 July 2018. It’s now published both as a manuscript (Theuretzbacher et al. Lancet ID 2018, link) and a set of summary tables (link). Team WHO would like to update this analysis with a cut-off date of 1 Aug 2019. They
Dear All: Two useful papers have just been released — see titles and abstracts below my signature. Both are Open Access so please do download & read! And just for full disclosure, know that I’m a co-author on both. First, a working group organized by WHO has produced a comprehensive review of the clinical antimicrobial pipeline for both
Dear All: The UN Interagency Coordination on AMR Secretariat, hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), is looking for a consultant to support the delivery of the work of the ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG). As context, IACG’s mandate is to provide practical guidance for approaches needed to ensure sustained effective global action to address
Dear All, Today’s topics all share the theme of Less Talk, More Action! Here we go… First up … news from the US. I’ve written before about tweets from US CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services) administrator Seema Verma (link) on the need for changes in antibiotic reimbursement as well as the very concrete steps taken in