Introduction to AMR
If no actions are taken to address the global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threat, it is estimated that by 2050 AMR will cost around10 million lives every year worldwide. AMR can lead to serious economic implications, such as causing illness of workers and delays in workflows.
Antibiotic resistance genes are exchanged between zoonotic, environmental bacteria and clinical pathogens through plasmid transmission, and environmental bacteria can contribute to the dissemination of antibiotic resistance. In addition, travellers can carry AMR bacteria to different parts of the world. The trade and movement of livestock and livestock products can also facilitate the outflow and inflow of AMR bacteria. Through these complex interactions among several actors, no country or sector can singlehandedly come up with effective solutions to AMR.
One Health and AMR
One Health is an added value in terms of better health and well-being for humans and animals, financial savings and enhanced environmental services, originating from the closer cooperation of health sectors together with other concerned disciplines and sectors. One Health research has greatly contributed to zoonoses control in resource‐poor settings by showing health and financial benefits to all sectors and by jointly using human and animal health services. One Health aims to improve the health of communities, their animals and the integrity of their environment by translating research into policy and practice.
One Health shows multi‐directional relationships among human health, animal health and environmental health. New integrated disease surveillance systems are under evaluation, but no consensus is yet available on the definition, objectives, components and criteria performance of such systems. International health agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) would also welcome a performance evaluation for integrated AMR surveillance – beyond the frameworks for endemic and emerging zoonoses.
The goal of this AMR learning event in Vietnam is to formulate ways forward for integrated methods and inter-sectoral collaboration. Vietnamese postgraduate trainees will have a background in associated disciplines such as medical (human and animal), public health, agriculture including aquaculture, animal and food sciences, policy, economics, and microbiology, as well as social scientists.
Course agenda
- NIHE/NIVR
- OUCRU
Course organizers/speakers
- Deputy Head of Human and Animal Health Unit, Swiss TPH
- Head of the Research Group Bacteriogical Food Safety at Agroscope, Switzerland
- Research expert at Minnesota University
- Director of the National Institute of Veterinary Research (NIVR)
- Deputy Director at CENPHER; HSPH
- CEO, BioSpring
- Director of National Hospital of Tropical Diseases
- Vice Director of National Hospital of Tropical Disease
- Scientist and acting regional representative for East and Southeast Asia at International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- Head of Anaerobic Laboratory, National Institute of Hygiene Epidemiology
- Research expert at Minnesota University