RSTMH Annual Meeting 2021: Drug Resistant Infections
RSTMH Annual Meeting 2021: Drug Resistant Infections - Causes, Consequences and Considerations
Our 2021 Annual Meeting brought together RSTMH members and supporters from around the world to share knowledge from the forefront of the fight against drug-resistant infections and to encourage new connections and collaborations.
The meeting covered a wide range of topics within the drug-resistant infection (DRI) space, including:
- Analysis of the drivers of AMR
- Antimicrobial resistance surveillance
- Antimicrobial stewardship implementation
- Antimicrobial usage monitoring in agricultural settings
- Considerations for successful AMR policy implementation
Sessions took the form of keynote presentations, expert seminars, turbo talks, and panel discussions, with an emphasis on audience interaction.
Speakers
Professor Dame Sally Davies delivered the keynote lecture.
Other confirmed speakers included:
- Céire Costelloe, Reader in Digital Health and Statistics & NIHR Career Development Fellow, Imperial College London
- Sally Davies, UK Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance
- Jyoti Joshi, Head of South Asia, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP)
- Claas Kirchhelle, Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University College Dublin
- Rebecca Lester, Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Mashkoor Mohsin Gilani, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Mirfin Mpundu, Director, ReAct Africa
- Jim O'Neill, Chairman, Review of Antimicrobial Resistance
- Marcelo Pilonetto, State Laboratory for Public Health, Department of Health Assistance and Surveillance, Secretary of Health, Curitiba, Brazil
- Adam Roberts, RSTMH Policy Adviser on Drug-Resistant Infections and Scientific Chair, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Katy Turner, Managing Consultant, Aquarius Population Health
- George Varghese, Professor and Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Christian Medical College Vellore
- Ghada Zoubiane, Head of Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement, ICARS
More speakers were announced in the lead-up to the event via our website and newsletter.
Scientific Committee
Dr Adam Roberts served as the Scientific Chair of the Annual Meeting. A Reader in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and Resistance and AMR Lead at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, his research group was funded by the MRC, NIHR, UKRI, ERDF, and charities including the Wellcome Trust and Antibiotic Research UK.
The Scientific Committee focused on drug resistance in bacteria — particularly of LMIC origin — and the discovery and development of new drugs to treat bacterial and fungal diseases.
Committee members included (pictured below, left to right):
- Professor Clare Chandler, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Professor Guo-Bao Tian, Sun Yat-sen University
- Dr Jyoti Joshi, CDDEP
- Professor Sabiha Essack, University of KwaZulu-Natal
- Dr Mirfin Mpundu, ReAct Africa
