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WAAW* Event:
Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance - Strategies and Challenges

20 - 21 November 2023 in Berlin

* World AMR Awareness Week

Programme & Presentations



]The event took place on 20. and 21. November 2023 as a face-to-face meeting in Berlin. In addition, BVL offered the possibility to follow the event online.


PROGRAMME - DAY 1
20.11.2023
12:00 - 12:50Registration
13.00 - 13.15Welcome speech Friedel Cramer, President, BVL
13.15 - 13.30Welcome speech State Secretary Bender, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Germany
Section "One Health"
13.30 - 13.55Ana Luisa Perreira Mateus, WOAH - "WOAH and AMR: what we have learnt over the last few years“ [DOWNLOAD]
14.00 - 14.25Bernd-Alois Tenhagen, Speaker JIACRA - "Investigating the association of antimicrobial consumption and resistance in humans and animals on the European level - The JIACRA-reports“
14.30 - 14.55Ed Topp, INRAE, France - "The environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance“ [Download]
15.00 - 15.25Guido Werner, RKI - "Antimicrobial resistance across sectors - the devil is in the (molecular) detail“ [DOWNLOAD]
15.30 - 15.45Short discussion Section "One Health“
15.45 - 16.15Coffee break
Section "European Medicines Agency Network"
16.15 - 16.40Thomas Heberer, BVL - "Antimicrobial Resistance: A key area of the European Medicines Agencies Regulatory Network Strategy (EMANS)“ [DOWNLOAD]
16.45 - 17.10María Jesús Lamas Díaz, HMA, AEMPS Spain - "National Competent Authorities addressing AMR: cooperation and coordination among member states“
17.15 - 17.40Zoltan Kunsagi, EMA - "The latest AMR related activities of the European Medicines Agency - Implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2019/6“ [DOWNLOAD]
17.45 - 18.00Short discussion "Section European Medicines Agency Network“
18.00Dinner


PROGRAMME - DAY 2
21.11.2023
Section "Monitoring and data collection"
09.00 - 09.20Ulrike Steinacker, BVL - "GermVet - The German National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring on veterinary pathogens" [DOWNLOAD]
09.25 - 09.45 Katharina Hofmann, BVL - "Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in Germany - implementation of European strategies on a national level“ [DOWNLOAD]
09.50 - 10.10Reinhard Fuchs, AGES, Austria - "Antimicrobial use data in veterinary medicine: data collection, validation and benchmarking experiences in Austria“ [DOWNLOAD]
10.15 - 10.35William Fitzgerald, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland - "Antimicrobial use and the challenges that it presents – An Irish perspective“ [DOWNLOAD]
10.40 - 11.00Consuelo Rubio Montejano, AEMPS, Spain - "Experience with the collection of antimicrobial use data – Spanish experience best practice exchange" [DOWNLOAD]
11.00 - 11.30Snack Break
Section "Strategies against antimicrobial resistance worldwide"
11.30 - 11.55Jeffrey Silverstein, US Department of Agriculture, USA - "Agricultural strategies against antimicrobial resistance"
12.00 - 12.25Amy Pruden, Virginia Tech, USA - "Promise and Limitations of Metagenomic Surveillance to Inform Policy and Practice for Combating the Spread of AMR“ [DOWNLOAD]
12.30 - 12.45Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, Germany - "closing remarks“
12.45 - 13.45Panel Discussion: Thomas Heberer (BVL), Ana Luisa Pereira Mateus (WOAH), Amy Pruden (Virginia Tech), Guido Werner (RKI)
13.45 - 14.00 Evaluation

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Programme: WAAW* Event: Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance - Strategies and Challenges (PDF)