Recognising antibiotics as a global public good: Challenges and possibilities

Rohit Malpani is an independent consultant, based in Paris, and is currently both an advisor to the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership on antibiotic resistance, and the World Health Organization on the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence in health. Previously, he represented non-governmental organizations on the Board of Unitaid, was the Director of Policy for the Medecins Sans Frontieres Access Campaign, a Special Advisor at Oxfam, and an intellectual property attorney for the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini in Palo Alto, California. He has a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the New York University School of Law.

Gavin Yamey is the Hymowitz Professor of Global Health in the Duke Global Health Institute, a Professor of Public Policy in the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy, and Director of Duke’s Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. The Center is an innovative policy lab that addresses critical challenges in financing and delivering global health, including global public goods. He trained in clinical medicine at Oxford University and University College London, medical journalism and editing at BMJ, and public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has served as a commissioner for four Lancet commissions—on investing in health, global surgery, TB, and peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality—and co-chairs the international advisory board for the Lancet commission on global hearing loss. He also co-chairs the economics and financing working group for the Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health.

Anna Karin Sjöblom is the Director of ReAct Europe and a member of ReActs Global leadership team. Anna holds a Master of Science in Global Health. Anna is a registered nurse and holds a Master of Science in Global Health. She has a long experience of working in humanitarian assistance both within the medical field, infectious diseases, pediatrics, primary health care, SRHR and outbreaks. She has also worked as a Medical Humanitarian Advisor with Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sweden which included policy and advocacy work on AMR and access to essential medicines.

Dr Kerri Elgar is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Director’s Officeof the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD) of theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD). Sincejoining the OECD, she has worked in a range oftopics including vaccine equity, digital health, global public goodsand policy reform, and has also worked on international co-ordination efforts through the OECD G20/G7 Sherpa Office. Priorto this, she worked for the Australian Government’sDepartmentof Foreign Affairs and Trade.

She holds a PhD from the University of Queensland and has lectured on ethics andinternationalcrisis management at universities in Australia, France and Papua NewGuinea. In 2012, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Development Policy Centre,Australian National University, where her research concentrated on the design ofchallenge funds for development co-operation.

Amit Khurana is Director of the Sustainable Food Systems programme at the Centre for Science and Environment, India. Along with his team, Amit works to push for necessary change in policy and practice on issues related to junk foods and non-communicable diseases; pesticide use and organic and natural farming; and antibiotic use in food production and waste management from farms and factories and their linkages with the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance. He works for the required change at the national level, and in countries of the global south as well as global policy relevant to such countries.

Rajeshwari Sinha is a Programme Manager in the Sustainable Food Systems programme at the Centre for Science and Environment. At CSE, she leads the global and national portfolio of the antimicrobial resistance programme, focusing on the animal and environmental aspects. Her work entails policy advocacy and research on issues around AMR, food systems and sustainable food. She holds a doctoral degree in microbial biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology of Delhi, following which she transitioned into working at the science-policy interface in the public health space. She is also an alumna of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Gauri Arora is a Programme Officer in the Sustainable Food Systems programme at the Centre for Science and Environment. At CSE, she works on the global and national portfolio of the antimicrobial resistance programme, focusing on the animal and environmental aspects. She holds a master’s degree in environmental studies and resource management from TERI School of Advanced Studies, Delhi, and is also an alumna of University of Delhi.