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The challenge of anti-microbial resistance

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
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In conversation with Chris Dye, Sally Davies will explore the major challenge of anti-microbial resistance and discuss whether people’s greater appreciation of medical risk due to the pandemic will help the development of effective countermeasures.
Date
11 February 2021, 5:00pm - 6:00pm

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Online

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Since their widespread deployment in the mid-20th century, effective antibiotics have been at the forefront of medicine saving countless lives.

But the last two decades have seen an alarming rise in pathogens resistant to antibiotics (anti-microbial resistance or AMR), while there are fewer novel antibiotics in the research and development pipeline. During her time as the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, and since leaving that position in 2019, Dame Sally Davies, the UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, has been tireless in pointing out the great dangers of AMR to health throughout the world and suggesting what needs to be done.

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Series
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
People
Dame Sally Davies
Chris Dye
Keywords
anti-microbial resistance
AMR
Medicine
Health
Covid-19
antibiotics
Department: Oxford Martin School
Date Added: 15/03/2021
Duration: 01:02:55

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