Session Programme

Parallel session-Debate

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

Session PS19/room 4

Shared Responsibility and Concerted Responses to Antibiotic Resistance

Chairs: Rachel Nugent, Deputy Director, Global Health, Centre for Global Development, USA
Dominique Monnet, Senior Expert & Programme Coordinator, Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections Scientific Advice Unit European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden

Two approaches to the complex issue of antimicrobial resistance exist: One argues that relying on the development of new drugs to overcome the problem represents the main solution, while the other prefers to focus on the containment strategies to limit the misuse and abuse of antimicrobial drugs. Goran Tomson and Stephen Harbarth will represent these opposing views, preceded by a keynote address by Dominique Monnet

European Perspective on Antimicrobial Resistance Prevention and Control: A Success Story to Follow?

Dominique Monnet, Senior Expert & Programme Coordinator, Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections Scientific Advice Unit European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden

Should the Development of New Antibiotics Be a Public Health Priority? Yes!

Goran Tomson, Professor, International Health Systems Research, Division of Global Health, Department of Public Health Sciences and Director of Doctoral Programme, Medical Management Centre Nobels, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Should the Development of New Antibiotics Be a Public Health Priority? No!

Stephan Harbarth, Associate Professor, Infection Control Programme, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland