In this seminar, researchers from the FAR project will look at antibiotic consumption and stewardship through a collaborative lens, asking how we might bridge the gap between global strategies and local contexts. By examining how antibiotics are used (for human and animal health), valued, and governed in diverse environments, we will consider how stewardship can become more responsive, inclusive, and effective.
Stewardship programs have emerged as a central strategy to ensure antibiotics remain effective within efforts to meet antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a global challenge (WHO Global action plan, 2015). Yet too often, stewardship agendas are designed from a top-down perspective, rooted in policy frameworks and clinical guidelines that do not always reflect the realities on the ground (Denyer Willis, L., & Chandler, C. (2019) Pearson & Chandler, 2019, Kirchhelle, C. (2020). On the contrary, in settings where health systems are fragmented, access to medicines is uneven, and local practices of care are shaped by cultural, social, and economic pressures—such top-down programs could be contra productive.
We invite you to join our seminar!
Program
12.30-12.50: Alex Gateri (PhD student, UiO): Antibiotic use among small-scale livestock farmers in Moshi, Tanzania
12.50-13.10: Yngvild Wasteson (Prof. of Food microbiology, NMBU): comments
13.10-13.20: Break
13.20-13.50: Maarten van der Heijden (PhD student, LSHTM/Geneva Graduate Institute): From Rational Use to Stewardship - The Evolution of the International Governance of Antimicrobial Use
13.50-1410: Sine Grude (MD, UiO/Harvard): Prescription and guidelines in clinical settings in Moshi, Tanzania
14.10-14.30: Break
14.30-14.50: Amanda Spjeldnæs (PhD candidate, UiO): Antibiotic use in the Palestinian refugee camp Shatila, Lebanon
14.50-15.00: Arunima Sehgal Mukherjee, Researcher (Sustainit, UiO)
15.00-16.00: Concluding panel discussion: Interdisciplinary approaches to antibiotic use and AMR: ways forward
16.00-17.00: Social gathering