The GW4 AMR Alliance and the GW4 Climate Alliance are hosting a joint, facilitated, one-day workshop to explore the intersection between climate/environment change and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as converging global challenges.
GW4 investigators interested in climate change, climate & health, AMR, and One Health – from all disciplines – are invited to start new conversations, map research interests and strengths, and discuss new collaborations and research communities across the GW4 universities.
This workshop is also being planned alongside the UKRI cross-council call (expected in June) on Transdisciplinary funding to tackle AMR where the impact of climate change on AMR is a priority topic.
Potential topics may include:
• Strategies to clarify cross-sectoral links and address climate-related health risks by, for example:
• Integrated surveillance and control, early warning systems, epidemic preparedness and AMR
• Community education and social mobilisation
• Interventions in displaced populations
• Innovation in novel and rapid diagnostics
• Transdisciplinary lenses to frame the problem, recognising that the health of people, animals (livestock/aquaculture), and the environment are inextricably linked (One Health approach)
• Food security, agriculture, land use and antifungal resistance
• Water, sanitation and hygiene, transmission of resistant pathogens, pollutants & environmental drivers of resistance
• Socially just solutions to prevent unintended consequences of mitigation interventions
• Financing, political advocacy and the need for coordinated global action to address the converging threats of AMR and climate change
Please register here: Climate and AMR workshop, registration closes 1 June 2023