Ethics and Value Challenges in Antibiotic Resistance Management, Research and Policy

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Program:

November 15

8:30 Arrival & Coffee

9:00 Introduction - Joakim Larsson & Christian Munthe (CARe - University of Gothenburg)

9:30 Global political response to the antibiotic resistance challenge
Otto Cars (Uppsala University)

10:30 Antibiotics and Animal Agriculture: The Need for Global Collective Action
Jonathan Anomaly (University of Arizona)

11:30 Coffee & Snacks

12:00 What is care in the wake of antibiotics? Experiences of global health in low resource settings.
Clare Chandler (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Antibiotics, inequality, and early childhood development
Michael Millar (Barts Health NHS Trust)

15:00 What is responsible care for antibiotic resistance carriers?
Marcel Verweij (Wagenigen University)

16:00 Coffee & Snacks

16:30 Surveillance and control of asymptomatic carriers of drug resistant pathogens
Michael J. Selgelid (Monash University and WHO)

17:30 End of Day 1

November 16

9:00 Collective responsibility and its ethical implications related to drug resistance
Julian Savulescu (University of Oxford)

10:00 Ethical implications of a sustainability argument for drug resistance action
Angus Dawson (University of Sydney)

11:00 Coffee & Snacks

11:30 Should antibiotic resistance interventions be expedited?
Christian Munthe (CARe - University of Gothenburg)

12:30 Lunch

13:30 (How) can ethical discourse on drug resistance inform health policy?
Jasper Littmann (Robert Koch Institute)

14:30 What is required of effective legal mechanisms in the drug resistance area?
Steven J. Hoffman (York University of Toronto)

15:30 Coffee & Snacks

16:00 Risky business? Developing a risk-based ethical framework for rational antibiotics management
Alena Buyx (Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel)

17:00 Carlos Segovia Pérez (National Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid & Chair of the Management Board of The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance [JPIAMR]).

17:15 End of Symposium

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Organizers: Joakim Larsson (director of CARe), Christian Munthe (PI for ethics in CARe), and the CARe steering committee.