Joint strategies to tackle antimicrobial resistance and global health emergencies

Federal Minister of Health Hermann Gröhe had met with his counterparts Edith Schippers of the Netherlands and Alain Berset of Switzerland as well as the Chinese-American cardiologist and President of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Victor Joseph Dzau, within the framework of an international discussion forum to look at joint measures to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Crisis preparedness

The fight against AMR will also be on the agenda of a policy meeting on global health on Thursday, 19 January, where Federal Minister Hermann Gröhe will come together with government representatives from the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Mauritius, the Netherlands and Pakistan. The meeting will focus on ways to strengthen health care systems in developing countries and emerging economies and to enhance global health crisis management in an effort to boost the preparedness for future emergencies.

The meeting will be followed by a pandemic simulation. It will be attended by Federal Minister Gröhe and, among others, the UN Special Adviser David Nabarro, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the US policy-maker and leading economist Professor Lawrence H. Summers as well as Ecolab Chairman and CEO Douglas M. Baker. As the simulated threat unfolds, the participants will engage in an open discussion to jointly develop a crisis response roadmap and identify what preparedness measures should be taken.