Date: November 14, 2024
Time: 9:00 am EST
The Montreal Protocol was signed in 1989 to tackle ozone depletion. Despite the initial hurdles to implementing the Protocol, the ozone layer is now on the path to recovery, making the protocol a success story in global cooperation. Today, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health threat, causing over 1.27 million deaths each year. This crisis, worsened by the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials, needs global cooperation to address the growing health concerns for humans, animals, and the environment.
There have been many calls for an international legal instrument to address the rising threat of AMR. However, the latest efforts to adopt a Pandemic Treaty lack AMR-centred policies. Just as the Montreal Protocol served as a model for environmental governance, it can provide guidance for developing an international agreement to tackle AMR. Our publication, ‘Learning from the Montreal Protocol to improve the global governance of antimicrobial resistance’, suggests there is plenty to learn from this global environmental agreement, adapting nine principles of equity, flexibility, and accountability to address the global issue of AMR.
Join us for a one-hour webinar discussion exploring how the successful governance principles of the Montreal Protocol can inform and enhance strategies for managing antimicrobial resistance.
To learn more, check out our policy brief.
Moderator: Dr. Mathieu Poirier, Director, Global Strategy Lab
Mathieu Poirier is the Director of the Global Strategy Lab, York Research Chair (Tier II) in Global Health Equity, and Assistant Professor of Social Epidemiology at the School of Global Health. His research ranges from evaluating international law to developing health equity metrics and generating policy-relevant research on socially and politically determined inequities in health.
Dr. Tina Nanyangwe-Moyo, Investigator, Global Strategy Lab
Dr. Nanyangwe-Moyo is an Investigator with the Global Legal Epidemiology research programme at GSL with expertise in advanced demographic and epidemiological research methods. Her research integrates analytical approaches in understanding the ways socioeconomic factors affect systems that have downstream impacts on population health. She leads team research projects and designs and executes interdisciplinary global health research studies. Dr. Nanyangwe-Moyo is the lead author of the publication ‘Learning from the Montreal Protocol to improve the global governance of antimicrobial resistance’.
Amit Khurana, Programme Director, Sustainable Food Systems, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India
Amit Khurana is the Director of the Sustainable Food Systems programme at the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India, where he has been leading and guiding the Centre’s campaign on animal and environmental dimensions of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for over a decade. He engages with national, regional and global stakeholders and pushes for policies and practices that are suitable to resource-constrained settings of the global south and can help support sustainable and equitable development.
Professor Lucy Carpenter, Atmospheric Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of York
Professor Lucy Carpenter studies the complex interaction between the oceans and the atmosphere, in particular the chemistry of reactive halogens, reactive nitrogen and organic carbon. Lucy was a Lead Chapter Author of the 2014 and 2018 WMO/UNEP Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion and is Chair of the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Scientific Advisory Group on Reactive Gases. She is co-founder of a major atmospheric observatory on the Cape Verde islands in the tropical Atlantic where she leads a long-term atmospheric monitoring programme. She is currently Deputy Head of the Chemistry Department (Research) at the University of York.
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