Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, and other microbes stop responding to antimicrobial medicines. Unpacking AMR delves into the challenges of drug-resistant infections. Join the conversation on creating sustainable, fair, and evidence-informed policies. Remember, AMR is more than drugs and bugs!
New Conceptions to Manage AMR – Part 4 – Collective Action Problems
Across the New Conceptions miniseries, we've made the case that AMR must be addressed not only as a biomedical challenge but also as a social challenge. We've explored a series of conceptions that can reshape the global action plan revisions: antimicrobial resistance as socio-ecological dynamics, as infrastructure woven through daily life, and as a challenge shaped by urbanization, social inequities, and global systems.
In this episode of Unpacking AMR, Daniela Corno speaks with Dr. Laura Valtere and Dr. Daniel Carelli to unpack AMR as a collective action problem, a global challenge that cuts across human, animal, plant, and environmental health, and pulls in players from industry, academia, healthcare, and civil society. It's a vast patchwork of actors, each with their own competing interests and limited incentives to cooperate across borders. Together they explore how resistance pays no attention to national borders, why national action plans often fall short of their promises, and what it might take to build the trust, capacity, and authority that real cooperation demands.
This is the fourth and final episode in our "New Conceptions to Manage AMR" miniseries, which has explored how social science can reframe the way we think about antimicrobial resistance and strengthen the next global action plan. It’s the last of the series, but not of the podcast! Stay tuned for more episodes of Unpacking AMR.
9 Feb 2026
Where Art Meets AMR
Experts understand the urgency of the AMR crisis. There are countless technical reports, research papers and policy briefs on the issue, and we see the impact that drug-resistant infections are having worldwide. But how do we build awareness about this “silent pandemic” if we cannot effectively communicate the scale of the problem and the consequences of delaying action? Without clear and compelling communication, we risk missing a critical window in which effective, coordinated action across sectors can change the trajectory of AMR.
Join our host Demetria Tsoutouras and guest Alison Humphrey on Unpacking AMR, as we explore how art and storytelling can complement evidence-informed policymaking. Through initiatives like the ART x AMR project, artists, storytellers and curators around the globe are transforming lived experiences and real life ramifications of AMR into interactive stories that engage both the public and policymakers.
16 Dec 2025
New Conceptions to Manage AMR – Part 3
When we think about antimicrobials, many of us picture a biomedical story. A story that unfolds in hospitals and clinics, physicians prescribing antibiotics, pharmacists dispensing them, or patients taking them to recover from an infection. But antimicrobials go far beyond hospitals and pharmacies.
In this episode of Unpacking AMR, Daniela Corno speaks with Dr. Clare Chandler and Dr. Susan Nayiga to unpack how AMR is woven into everyday infrastructures, shifting our focus from microbes to the systems that make us dependent on antimicrobials.
7 Oct 2025
Unpacking the Independent Panel on Evidence for Action Against AMR
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a leading global public health threat that calls for coordinated action across multiple sectors. In 2024, country representatives at the UN General Assembly committed to creating the Independent Panel on Evidence for Action against AMR (IPEA). This initiative is aimed to bring together multidisciplinary experts to provide countries with evidence-based guidance on how to effectively address AMR. The IPEA is set to be established by the end of 2025.
How will the IPEA provide solutions that are representative of AMR in low, middle, and high resource settings? What are some potential challenges that the IPEA may face in its development stage? What are the short and long-term priorities of the IPEA?
We discuss all of this and more in Episode 7 of Unpacking AMR, hosted by GSL Director of Communications Demetria Tsoutouras, who she speaks with Dr. Iruka Okeke, a Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, and Anthony McDonnell, a Policy Fellow in the Center for Global Development’s Global Health Team. The development of the IPEA is a step forward in addressing the complex and wide spanning concern of AMR.
7 Jul 2025
New Conceptions to Manage AMR – Part 2
Host Daniela Corno interviews Dr. Raphael Aguiar and Dr. Kayla Strong about how urbanization and social inequities impact the rise of antimicrobial resistance.
16 Apr 2025
New Conceptions to Manage AMR – Part 1
Dr. Isaac Weldon and Dr. Ilaria Natali explore the socio-ecological dynamics of antimicrobial resistance, shifting the narrative to understand human and microbe co-existence in this interview.
18 Nov 2024
A Political Declaration on AMR: What's next?
Industry experts discuss the recent UN General Assembly's political declaration on antimicrobial resistance and explore the crucial next steps for translating commitments into tangible action.
26 Jul 2024
SAFEguarding Antimicrobials
Julianne Piper, Carly Ching, Isaac Weldon, and Jeremy Grimshaw discuss the SAFE AMR Governance Partnership and how a collaborative One Health approach protects antimicrobials in this interview episode.
22 Feb 2024
AMR: More Than A Global Health Challenge
Dr. Susan Rogers Van Katwyk and Dr. Mathieu Poirier explore antimicrobial resistance, explaining its impact on human health, animals, and infrastructure, while highlighting interdisciplinary research efforts in this interview.
17 Nov 2023
Welcome to Unpacking AMR
This episode introduces the podcast Unpacking AMR, which explores the challenges of antimicrobial resistance and promotes sustainable policies.
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