1ST GLOBAL FORUM CONTINUED

15 December 2011

The 1^st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections, held in New Delhi on October 3-5, 2011, focused on aspects of antibiotic access and resistance with particular relevance to low- and middle-income countries. The forum web site will continue to be maintained as a conference archive and all individual power point presentations, photos from the conference and a video from the opening session are now available.

Image source: CDDEP

The Global Forum, convened by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in collaboration with the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership (a project of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy - CDDEP), brought together policymakers, clinicians, public health programme managers and research experts from a variety of disciplines and sectors to introduce and evaluate policy innovations designed to work in low-resource countries.

Individual Power Point presentations, videos of the Opening Session on October 3 and photographs from the conference are now available from the 1st Global Forum web site.

ReAct, co-sponsor of the meeting chaired sessions on innovation of novel health technologies and the development and implementation of policies to manage antibiotic resistance (ABR), as well as the hands-on session: “Reimagining Resistance”, which explores new ways of communicating ABR.

Read more about ReAct activities during the Global Forum

Watch videos from Otto Cars’ plenary session as well as his closing statement

In conjunction with the forum ReAct arranged the roundtable meeting “Exploring Ways to Preserve Future Novel Antibiotics – A Global Systems Perspective” and a network meeting to introduce active members of the network to each other and facilitate exchange of experience, ideas and themes across the network.

During the 1st Global Forum the "New Delhi Call to Action on Preserving the Power of Antibiotics" was signed by Ministers of Health from Kenya, Ghana and Vietnam. ReAct, as collaborator and co-sponsor of the forum supports the Call to Action which is open for signing by Government Ministers.

Download New Delhi Call to Action (pdf 1.7 MB)

More information on the CDDEP website

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