On January 19th and 20th, the Global Strategy Lab (GSL) convened leading social scientists and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policy experts, at the Wellcome Trust in London, England to explore shifting the focus of AMR policy discussions beyond traditional biomedical perspectives. This innovative event focused on reframing AMR and generating new avenues to advance research for more sustainable and equitable policy approaches.
The New Conceptions of AMR meeting highlighted four social science approaches to tackling the problem of AMR:
- Collective action problems – AMR is a social challenge created by actors with competing interests and insufficient incentives to cooperate.
- Urban political ecology – urbanization, environmental degradation, global health threats, and climate change as interconnected problems for AMR.
- AMR as infrastructure – antimicrobials are part of invisible infrastructure, routinely used as integral parts of modern food systems, land-use practices, clinical medicine, and public health.
- Socio-ecological dynamics – AMR requires robust institutions to manage the dynamic co-evolution of human societies and invisible microbial ecologies.
Follow-up to this event will include the development of research and policy publications.
Raphael Aguiar, York University
Pedro Henrique D. Batista, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Geneviève Boily-Larouche, Global Strategy Lab
Daniel Carelli, Chalmers University of Technology
Clare Chandler, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Carly Ching, Boston University
Daniela Corno, Global Strategy Lab
Fiona Emdin, Global Strategy Lab
Patrick Fafard, Global Strategy Lab \ University of Ottawa
Alyssa Grant, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Sofía Gutiérrez, Global Strategy Lab
Steven Hoffman, Global Strategy Lab \ Wellcome Trust
Roger Keil, York University
Sonia Lewycka, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU)
Kathy Liddell, University of Cambridge
Rebecca Manaley, Wellcome Trust
Clare McGall, Global Strategy Lab
Janet Midega, Wellcome Trust
Timo Minssen, University of Copenhagen
Ilaria Natali, Toulouse School of Economics
Susan Nayiga, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Yến Hồng Thị Nguyễn, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU)
Iruka Okeke, University of Ibadan
Emmanuel Olamijuwon, University of St Andrews
Kevin Outterson, Boston University \ CARB-X
Tarra Penney, Global Strategy Lab
Julianne Piper, Simon Fraser University
Mathieu Poirier, Global Strategy Lab
Jaskeerat Singh, Global Strategy Lab
Srinivasa Srigiri, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Kayla Strong, Global Strategy Lab
JS Thakur, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
Kednapa Thavorn, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Laura Valtere, University of Copenhagen
Maarten Van Der Heijden, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
A.M. Viens, Global Strategy Lab
Tracey Wagner-Rizvi, Global Strategy Lab
Isaac Weldon, Global Strategy Lab \ University of Copenhagen
Clare Wenham, London School of Economics
Mary Wiktorowicz, Global Strategy Lab \ Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research
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