Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR)
The Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial resistance (STAG-AMR) is the principal advisory group to the World Health Organization (WHO) on antimicrobial resistance.

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The Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial resistance (STAG-AMR) is the principal advisory group to the World Health Organization (WHO) on antimicrobial resistance. The STAG-AMR has the mandate to provide advice to the WHO Director-General and the AMR Division on overall global policies and strategies to address AMR within the context of human health, while considering relevant World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions and decisions.

 As part of the WHO Director-General’s Transformation Agenda, a new AMR Division was established, led by an Assistant Director-General, along with two new departments – Surveillance, Prevention and Control (SPC) and Global Coordination and Partnerships (GCP), led by two new Directors. The priorities of the new AMR Division have been re-defined based on the strong recommendations of the Inter-Agency Coordination Group on AMR’s (IACG) report to the United Nations Secretary-General in April 2019, and feedback from member states through their adoption of the WHA AMR Resolution (WHA72.5) in May 2019. Therefore, the Director-General called for the dissolution of the existing STAG-AMR, and re-establishment of a new STAG-AMR based on revised Terms of Reference.  The new STAG-AMR will provide guidance based on these new priorities.

Members of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR)

Professor Gunnar Kahlmeter

MD, PhD, Chair of STAG-AMR

Dr Jameela Al Salman

Chairperson of Infection Control

Dr Laura Barcelona

Head of the Infectiology Service, Bernardo Houssay Hospital, Vicente López, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

Dr Hanene Tiouiri Benaissa

Head of the Infectious Diseases Department, University Hospital Rabta of Tunis, Tunisia

Professor Kirsty Lee Buising

Infectious Diseases Physician, Deputy Director of National Center of Antimicrobial Stewardship, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, AUSTRALIA.

Ms Vanessa Carter

Patient Advocate, SOUTH AFRICA

Dr Sujith J. Chandy

Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, INDIA

Dr Tim Eckmanns

AMR Lead, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, GERMANY

Professor Sabiha Essack

Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences; Director: Antimicrobial Research Unit University of KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA. Vice-Chair, STAG-AMR

Dr Wail Ahmad Hayajneh

Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Jordan University of Science and Technology, JORDAN

Professor Mukesh Kapila

Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM.

Professor Samuel Kariuki

Director of Research and Development, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, KENYA.

Professor Constance Schultsz

Professor at the Department of Global Health-AIGHD, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, NETHERLANDS.

Dr Nandini Shetty

Consultant Clinical Microbiologist and Infection Specialist, Reference Microbiology, National Infection Service, Public Health England, UNITED KINGDOM.

Dr Dawn M. Sievert

Senior Science Advisor on AMR, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, USA.

Dr Viroj Tangcharoensathien

Ministry of Health of Thailand, THAILAND.

Professor Tim Walsh

Professor of Medical Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Dr Yu Zhang

Vice Director of State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA.

Meetings


Second meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR)

14-16 June 2022

WHO Headquarters, Geneva

WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for AMR: Report of the second meeting, 14-16 June 2022



First meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG-AMR)

22-24 June 2021

Virtual Meeting

WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for AMR: Report of the first meeting, 22-24 June 2021

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Reports