2020 WSC Spotlight – Antimicrobial Resistance: An Emerging Global Health Threat Now Available on YouTube and as a Podcast

The third session from the 2020 World Sepsis Congress Spotlight is now available on YouTube (embedded above) and as a Podcast on Apple Podcasts (just search for World Sepsis Congress in your favorite podcast app).

It was chaired by Maha Talaat from the World Health Organization, and features the following presentations and speakers:

  • Keynote: One-Health-Approach to AMR and Global Health Threats – Ilaria Capua, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, United States of America

  • Novel Medicines Project: Driving Reinvestment in Research and Development and Responsible Antibiotic Use – Stephan Harbarth, Infection Control Programme, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland

  • Cost-Effective Interventions to Combat AMR – Imran Hasan, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

  • AMR in Neonates and Children with Sepsis in LMICs – Mike Sharland, St George‘s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United KingdomDrivers of and Inequalities in the Burden of Sepsis in LMICs – Flavia Machado, Global Sepsis Alliance, Brazil

  • Antimicrobial Stewardship in Limiting Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms – Jameela Alsalman, Ministry of Health, Bahrain

Sessions are released weekly on Tuesdays. The next session will be ‘Sepsis, Ebola, and COVID-19’ on 6 October 2020.


The WSC Spotlight: Sepsis, Pandemics, and Antimicrobial Resistance – Global Health Threats of the 21st Century is co-organized by the World Health Organization and the Global Sepsis Alliance, initiator of World Sepsis Day and World Sepsis Congress.

Katja Couball