About us
There are three key workstreams within the Department, including:
- Surveillance, Evidence and Laboratory Strengthening (SEL);
- Control and Response Strategies (CRS); and
- National Action Plans and Monitoring and Evaluation (NPM).
The SEL Unit’s objective is to further develop and foster implementation of the WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS), including both AMR rates and patterns of antimicrobial use in humans, and promotion of One Health AMR surveillance approaches across human, animal and environmental sectors. In addition, the SEL Unit monitors emerging AMR threats, and conducts assessment of AMR impact on human health. The SEL package of work is crucial to inform (inter)national AMR policies, empirical treatment guidelines and antibiotic stewardship programmes.
The CRS Unit collaborates across several intersectoral areas to build capacity to implement AMR prevention and control strategies. The CRS Unit’s objective is to mitigate the emergence and spread of AMR, both within health care settings and the larger community.
The NPM Unit’s functions are to support Member States to develop, implement, and monitor their multisectoral national action plans on AMR, and to report on global progress in addressing AMR by monitoring relevant national, SDG and WHO GPW13 indicators.
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