Author: Anna Sundin
Antibiotic and their Alternatives. Fixing and feeding the Pipeline. Joint Workshop JPIAMR-EC-IMI-EPFIA
FDA progress report on Antimicrobial Resistance strategy
Heads of International Biomedical Research Organisations (HIROs) meeting in Shanghai on July 2.
Mats Ulfendahl, Chair of JPIAMR, lead the discussion on “International priorities surrounding antimicrobial resistance and development of new antibiotics”.
ESOF 2014 concluded
JPIAMR organized a well attended garden reception June 24th for speakers and participants of the ESOF session ‘Antibiotic resistance: a ticking time bomb!’ with keynote speaker Dr. Anne Glover (Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission) which was organized by the Swedish research and innovation councils SRC, Formas, Forte and Vinnova.
The Swedish research councils also had a stand during the ESOF2014 on the topic #uselessantibiotics.
ESOF 2014 – Copenaghen, June 21-26 2014
First call update
Free screening of “Resistance” film in Washington, June 11 2014
2014 European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology, 5-7 November, Stockholm
The 2014 ESCAIDE conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 5-7 November. The conference will be hosted at the Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, in the heart of the city. The ESCAIDE programme will offer a huge range of exciting presentations, posters, seminars and workshops on all aspects of infectious disease prevention and control, including epidemiology, public health microbiology, surveillance, vaccinology and tools and methods to assess and mitigate infectious disease outbreaks and support disease prevention.
Source: ESCAIDE
World Health Assembly closed
The Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly closed today, after adopting more than 20 resolutions on public Health issues of global importance.
Source: WHO
