Small Working Groups


Active Status

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Working Group

  • Mission: To increase awareness about the emergence of AMR, important role of AMR stewardship, and use of the One Health framework to mitigate disease risk among humans, animals, and the surrounding ecosystem, to diverse target audiences, including students, health professionals, and the general public.
  • Activities:
    • AMR Awareness Campaigns for WHO World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW)
      • November 14-20, 2016: WMA JDN participated in this social media campaign (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) to help physicians improve their AMR practices and empower them to advocate for AMR stewardship.
      • November 12-18, 2018: WMA JDN participated in this social media campaign (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) to help physicians improve their AMR practices and empower them to advocate for AMR stewardship.
    • Revision of the WMA Policy on Antimicrobial Resistance
    • Contributions to commentaries to WHO documents on behalf of WMA
  • Publications:

 

Climate Change and Health Working Group

  • Mission: Recognizing the unique position of health professionals in developing a positive narrative capable of influencing climate change policy, and the unique experience of many JDN members in the field of climate change aligned with the WMA Climate Change policy, the JDN Climate Change Working Group was founded to organize JDN work and increase the WMA capacity to engage in international climate change policy.
  • Activities / Success Stories:
    • 2015: First JDN participation in a UNFCCC meeting (May); Creation of the JDN Climate Change Working Group (October); JDN coordination of COP21 delegation (November)
    • 2016: WMA Climate Change Webinar (February); Follow-up of the work on air pollution at the WHA 69 (May); JDN coordination of SB46 delegation (May); Participation in the Second WHO Global Conference on Climate and Health (July); JDN coordination of COP22 delegation (November)
    • 2017: Participation in the WMA Sustainable Development Working Group (January); Adoption of the Revised WMA Declaration of Delhi on Climate Change and Health (October); JDN coordination of COP23 delegation (November)
    • 2018: JDN member appointed to co-chair the environmental caucus (January)

 

  • Physicians’ Stress/Burnout Working Group
  • Global Surgery Working Group
  • Postgraduate Medical Exchanges Working Group
  • Ethics Surrounding Medical Care for Psychiatric Patients Working Group

 

Completed Status

Note: Small Working Groups completed the respective tasks, and the WMA/JDN policy was adopted.

  • Global Health Training and its Implications Working Group
  • Doctors’ Health and Wellbeing Working Group