Prevention is Our Best Bet

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.

Saviour Kwame Yevutsey is currently serving as the Deputy Director of Pharmaceutical Services at the Pharmacy Directorate, Ministry of Health (MoH), Ghana. He is a Fellow of the Ghana College of Pharmacists and a licensed pharmacist who holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH), with a specialisation in Health Policy Planning and Management from the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon.

Saviour heads the Ghana Antimicrobial Resistance Coordinating Secretariat at the Ministry of Health, which oversees the implementation of the National Action Plan for AMR Policy in the country

Dr Mwapu Dika Ndahi is a veterinarian by training. She works at Nigeria’s ministry of agriculture as the country Focal Point for Veterinary Medicinal Products and Antimicrobial Resistance for the World Organization for Animal Health.

Dr Ndahi is a member of the One Health AMRCC and National TWG for AMR and supports the implementation of AMR interventions in the animal health sector. She has participated in the development of the One Health National Action Plans for AMR.

Dr Ndahi has a PhD in Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine with research focus on multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureaus, Lysteria monocytogenes and Serratia marcescens. As a Fleming Fund Fellow for antimicrobial use and consumption surveillance, her work has been published in BMC on ‘Determination of antimicrobial use in poultry in Plateau and Oyo States of Nigeria’.

Dr Emmanuel Tanui is a specialist pharmacist working at the Kenyan Ministry of Health, Division of Quality Assurance. He has over 10 years of experience in strengthening public health systems from a one health persepctive.

Emmanuel is the National Antimicrobial Resistance Focal Point and Secretary to the National AMS (Antimicrobial Stewardship) Technical Working Group. He is also a Member of the Joint National AMR Secretariat. Emmanuel is passionate about establishing functional health systems to support implementation of AMR policy and national action plan at all levels. He has been instrumental in the development and implementation of AMR, patient safety and infection prevention and control programmes in Kenya

Dr. Md. Abu Sufian is currently working as Director, Department of Livestock Services, Bangladesh. He is working in the department last 25 years for different position starting from scientific officer, upazila livestock officer, district livestock officers, principal scientific officer and chief scientific officer. He did his PhD from Kagawa University, Japan. He has 16 publications in national and international journal. Ha has vast experience as a World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) focal points for veterinary medicinal products. He already joined different international conference in eight countries.