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Conference on “Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Meeting the Global Challenge of AMR”

30 Oct 2017

 

HKU’s Centre for Medical Ethics and Law and School of Public Health are co-organising a two-day conference “Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Meeting the Global Challenge of AMR” with following details:

Date: 9 & 10 November 2017
Time: 9am to 6pm (Programme is enclosed)
Location: Large Moot Court, 2/F, Faculty of Law, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong
Language: English

The threat posed by AMR is rising at an alarming rate. The potential toll in terms of deaths, human suffering and economic loss is enormous, with 700,000 people a year dying from resistant infections and a burden of US$20 billion placed on the US healthcare system alone. The Conference will examine the future implications in human, clinical and economic costs if current trends are not reversed or contained. It will highlight problem areas such as public and professional awareness in both public and environmental health. The Conference will also cover developments in technologies such as pathogen genomics as well as exploring international best practice.

Professor Sophia Chan Siu-Chee, Secretary for Food and Health, will be the Guest of Honour. Professor Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer of England will deliver keynote presentation on the global challenge of antimicrobial resistance. Subject-matter experts locally include Professor Yuen Kwok-Yung, Chair of Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong and Dr Howard Wong, Director of Centre for Animal Welfare, City University of Hong Kong.

For media enquiries or arrangement of interviews with the speakers, please contact Ms Melanie Cheung (Email: melmlc@hku.hk / Tel: 3917 4345)