AMR Surveillance CCs Network - First meeting
13-14 December 2016, Geneva, Switzerland
Overview
At the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in 2015, WHO was requested to establish a network of WHO Collaborating Centres to support surveillance of antimicrobial resistance and quality assessment in each WHO region.
On 13-14 December 2016, the first meeting of the newly established WHO AMR Surveillance and Quality Assessment Collaborating Centres Network took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Meeting participants discussed and developed a work plan for 2017-2019 to support the implementation of the WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System.
Related meetings
3rd Meeting - WHO AMR Surveillance and Quality Assessment Collaborating Centres Network,
17-19 February 2019, Cairo, Egypt
2nd Meeting - WHO AMR Surveillance and Quality Assessment Collaborating Centres Network,
12-14 March 2018, Geneva, Switzerland
Related Website
WHO AMR Surveillance and Quality Assessment Collaborating Centres Network (CC Network)
Related publications
Guide for WHO Collaborating Centres, World Health Organization, 2016
Political Declaration of the high level meeting of the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance, United Nations General Assembly, September 2016.
World Health Assembly, 68. (2015). Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. World Health Organization