Webinar: One Health Day. Multisectoral Strategies to Contain AMR

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Objetive

To promote a multisectoral dialogue on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) under the One Health approach, engaging civil society, ministries of health, agriculture and food production, the environment and education, representatives of multisectoral committees and National Action Plans on AMR, academia, human and animal health professionals and farmers/food producers, in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the interconnections between food, water, and AMR. This analysis seeks to highlight and strengthen, across different levels, the everyday individual and collective actions that each sector can take, underscoring their distinct roles and responsibilities in preventing and containing AMR.

Overview

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest health challenges of our time. It not only threatens the effectiveness of antibiotics—medications that have saved millions of human and animal lives—but also impacts food production, water quality, and ecosystem balance. It is a growing problem that knows no borders or sectors: it affects us all.

Commemorating World One Health Day through a multisectoral dialogue is a way to make these interconnections visible and recognize that human, animal, and environmental health are deeply interconnected. The water we drink, the food we produce and consume, and the use of antibiotics in health and food systems are intimately linked. Every decision in one of these areas affects the others.

Bringing together representatives from communities, ministries, academia, AMR multisectoral national committees and action plans, health professionals from both the human and animal sectors, farmers and food producers, civil society organizations, educators, and artists in a single space is an exercise in shared responsibility. It enables us to understand, from multiple perspectives, how AMR is perceived, what actions are being taken to address it, and—most importantly—what more we can do together to prevent and contain it.

This dialogue is also an invitation to build collective and creative solutions. From public policies to community practices, from agroecology to education and art, we need to combine voices and experiences to protect antibiotics, care for water and food, and defend the health of the planet.

On this World One Health Day, we raise a common voice: AMR is not an isolated technical problem; it is a social and global challenge that requires unity, commitment, and urgent action at all levels.
 

Meeting Recording

Original audio

Agenda 

5 minutes

Welcoming Remarks

Moderator: André Santos, Panaftosa/PAHO, and Nataly Cubides, Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense (IDEC) / ReAct Latin America

10 minutes

What is AMR and why address it from a One Health perspective?

Marcos Cunha, Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Veterinary Public Health, PAHO, Brazil

Screening of short documentary

Interconnections between Water, Food, and Antibiotics

5 minutes

Audience interaction

Survey for participants

30 minutes

Multisectoral dialogue

- Christian Trigoso, Microbiologist, Emeritus Professor, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia

- Shady Heredia, Expert in Sustainable Food Systems, Ecuador

- Andrés Marcoleta, Molecular Biotechnology Engineer and PhD in Microbiology, University of Chile

- Laura Barcelona, Head of the infectious disease service, Bernardo Houssay, Buenos Aires. Member of WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Antimicrobial resistance (STAG-AMR)

5 minutes

Closing remarks 

Moderator

5 minutes

Musical presentation

Video of the song “Corre, Aguita Niña” performed by Ecuadorian doctor and artist Ulises Freire