20240426_MHLW_Agenda
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MEMBER STATES CONSULTATION
TO ACCELERATE ACTION TO FIGHT
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN
THE ASIA PACIFIC
WPR/DHS/EMT(02)/2024.1
Virtual
6 May 2024
ENGLISH ONLY
PROVISIONAL AGENDA
Time Activities Speaker/notes
10:30 – 11:00 Registration
11:00 – 11:30
Opening session
– Welcome and opening remarks
– Overview of objectives and agenda
– Administrative announcements
– Group photo (virtual)
Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala, Regional
Director, WHO Regional Office for the
Western Pacific (WPRO)
Ms Saima Wazed, Regional Director,
WHO Regional Office for South-East
Asia (SEARO)
Japan (speaker TBD)
Lluis Vinals Torres
Director, Division of Health Systems
and Services, WPRO
Takeshi Nishijima, Technical Officer,
Essential Medicines and Health
Technologies (EMT)/DHS/WPRO
11:30 – 12:20
Session 1: Reviewing progress and gaps for
AMR response in Asia-Pacific
1.1 Country presentations
1.2 Towards the United Nations High Level
Meeting for AMR in 2024
1.3 Progress and gaps in the AMR response in
the South-East Asia Region
Two countries, TBD (Thailand and one
from WPR?)
WHO headquarters (TBC)
Bassem Zayed, Regional Advisor for
AMR, SEARO
WPR/DHS/EMT(02)/2024.1
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Time Activities Speaker/notes
1.4 Progress and gaps in the AMR response in
the Western Pacific Region Takeshi Nishijima, EMT/DHS/WPRO
12:20 – 12:35 Mobility break
12:35 – 13:30
Session 2: Proposed joint position paper
3.1 Presentation of joint position paper and
proposed process for interested Member
States to support and endorse the joint
position paper
3.2 Interventions from Member States
Japan
13:30 – 13:45 Mobility break
13:45 – 14:00
Closing Session
– Conclusions & way forward
– Closing remarks
14:00 End