Institut Pasteur Korea (Director Ji Young-mi) held an international symposium online and offline under the theme of ‘Antibiotic Resistance One Health Response Strategy’.
This symposium focused on exploring a global strategy to effectively and quickly respond to antibiotic resistance through a One Health approach that encompasses humans, the environment, animals, and food, focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.
To this end, Institut Pasteur Korea held a symposium in cooperation with the Pasteur Network and the Association for Research and Development in Preparedness for Infectious Diseases (RAPID). RAPID (R&D Alliance for Preparedness of Infectious Diseases) is an R&D alliance launched in 2022 by infectious disease experts from Asia-Pacific research institutes within the Pasteur network to prepare for and respond to future pandemics.
At the symposium, 14 antibiotic resistance experts from 7 countries, including the Pasteur Network in 5 countries, including Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, and France, and domestic and international academia and research institutes, participated as speakers and moderators.
In particular, Dr. Phuong Cuc Le, Deputy Director of the Food Safety Center at the Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang, Vietnam; Professor Christopher Mason of Cornell University School of Medicine, founder of Meta-SUB, an international consortium for antibiotic resistance research; and Director of the Environment and Antibiotic Resistance Evolution Research Unit at the Pasteur Institute in France. Professor Philip Glacier and others presented the results of antibiotic resistance research.
The One Health approach calls for multidisciplinary and broad global cooperation to create a world where people, animals, and the environment are all healthy, and began to be emphasized around 2010 as a major strategy to respond to antibiotic resistance and zoonotic diseases.
Accordingly, the World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and One Health Committee (OHC) are taking the lead in expanding One Health response. there is.
Institut Pasteur Korea is also actively contributing to the acceleration of One Health by expanding global research cooperation based on the Pasteur network, which consists of 33 research institutes in 25 countries.
In particular, as a representative research institute in the Asia-Pacific region with 10 members from 7 countries, including Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China, within the network, it promotes exchange of researchers and information sharing through holding regular scientific exchange meetings, workshops, and symposiums, and provides support for COVID-19. , we are accelerating joint responses to major public health issues such as antibiotic resistance.
In addition, the antibiotic resistance research team led by Dr. Sujin Jang is conducting research to investigate and analyze the distribution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the local community as a member of 62 teams from 32 countries participating in the Metaserve Consortium.
Ji Young-mi, director of Institut Pasteur Korea, said, “Through this symposium, we will share the current status of global antibiotic resistance and research trends from the perspective of humans, environment, livestock, and food, which are the main axes of One Health response, and we will share the current status of antibiotic resistance and research trends centered on the Asia-Pacific region of the Pasteur Network. “We introduced a strategy to jointly respond to antibiotic resistance,” he said. “We hope that today’s discussion will lead to revitalization of exchange and cooperation between domestic and foreign researchers and develop into innovative research cooperation that accelerates effective One Health response.”
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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