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Antimicrobial Resistance

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Listen to a recording of this event

An edited recording of this past event is available on the BBC website with the programme title: 'Drug-resistant superbugs'.

What you’ll do

Join Claudia Hammond and guests to discuss one of the biggest public health challenges of our time: antimicrobial resistance. What can we do as disease-causing bacteria and viruses stop responding to treatment and drug-resistant infections increase?

Claudia will present the programme and interview the speakers. Then the audience will have the chance to ask questions. You can participate or just listen in. 

The event will be recorded live with an audience and edited into a programme to be broadcast on the BBC World Service. Some of the speakers will join the discussion by live audio link. After broadcast, episodes of 'The Evidence' are available on the BBC website.

Your event ticket will give you entry to the building, but please be aware of our current safety measures regarding Covid-19.

Dates

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Past

Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

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Claudia Hammond

Presenter

Claudia Hammond is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and psychology lecturer. She is the presenter of ‘All in the Mind’ and ‘Mind Changers’ on BBC Radio 4, and ‘The Evidence’ and ‘Health Check’ on the BBC World Service.

Professor Dame Sally Davies

Speaker

Dame Sally Davies was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2019. She is also the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University. Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2011-2019. She is a leading figure in global health, in November 2020, Dame Sally was announced as a member of the new UN Global Leaders Group on AMR, serving alongside Heads of State, Ministers and prominent figures from around the world to advocate for action on AMR.

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Ross MacFarlane

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Speaker

Ross MacFarlane is a research development specialist at Wellcome Collection. He has researched, written and lectured on the collections and other topics at the intersection of death, folklore and medicine.

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Professor Hanan Balkhy

Speaker

Professor Hanan H. Balkhy is the first appointed Assistant Director-General for the Antimicrobial Resistance Division (AMR) at the World Health Organization (WHO). This is a flagship program for the WHO with a mandate to lead the human health response to the emergence of antimicrobial resistance along with the relevant stakeholders. Dr Balkhy is a Professor of Pediatric Infection Diseases with over two decades of experience in the field of infectious diseases and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), and as a clinician and a researcher.

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Dr Mirfin Mpundu

Speaker

Dr Mirfin Mpundu is the director of ReAct Africa.

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Dr Janet Midega

Speaker

Dr Janet Midega is a Senior Research Manager for Wellcome’s Drug Resistant Infections (DRI) programme where she is providing scientific leadership, program development and management support to the surveillance and epidemiology program on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). At Wellcome, she led the recently published work on the burden of AMR and continues to lead science and policy research.