Author: Anna Sundin

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Source: Forskning.se

SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. WHO global campaign on May 5th. The focus of the 2014 call is the role of hand hygiene in reducing the spread of AMR. Among the activities, WHO is inviting health-care facilities to participate in two global surveys: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/global-surveys/en/

The InnovaResistance call for pre-proposals is now closed. Full proposal invitations will be communicated in late May.

The JPIAMR Steering Committe members for the forthcoming two years are: Mats Ulfendahl (Swe), Ghada Zoubiane (UK), Martin Steinbakk (Nor), Bülent Genç (Ger), Lene Cividanes (Den), and Martijntje Bakker (NL).

We thank Carlos Segovia, Laurent Gutmann, Peter Taylor and Waleria Hryniewicz for their Steering Committee work and welcome the new members to two exciting and productive years!

We are delighted to announce that Estonia has joined JPIAMR in the capacity of observer. We look forward to future interactions with the Estonian authorities and research community.

VINNOVA – Sweden’s Innovation Agency, has joined the InnovaResistance call, making €1.1 million available to Swedish industrial partners. Sweden is already represented in this call by the Swedish Research Council which contributes up to €3 million to Swedish academic partners.

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that prevent many deaths each year. Antibiotics are a precious global resource that must be managed on a sustainable ecological basis, akin to fisheries. But today, antibiotics are either managed in a haphazard fashion or mismanaged. An important task is to fix the broken economic Incentives.

Source: Chatam House

This report describes NIAID´s (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) ongoing research portfolio of basic, translational, and clinical research in antimicrobial resistance and outlines a combination of innovative approaches based on the latest scientific advances to be pursued.These strategies draw on multidisciplinary parterships, which are essential for achieving a coordinated and nimble approach to addressing Antibacterial Resistance threats as they emerge

The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance is hosting its Strategic Research Agenda launch Conference – “Implementing a Global Research Agenda for AMR” – in Brussels on April 03, 2014.
Conference Objectives:
• To achieve wide recognition and awareness for the findings and roadmap of the SRA
• To encourage uptake of the recommendations developed in the SRA by a wide range of stakeholders
• To encourage a follow-up and future collaboration between research funding agencies in the field of   AMR
• To encourage the participation of private funders
• To discuss among international partner funders of key priorities of the SRA and what is relevant for
them by developing global funding opportunities
• To work towards a global Joint Programming Initiative