Hamied Foundation UK-India Antimicrobial Resistance Meetings

In October 2017, the Academy announced a pledge from The Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation for a scheme to build stronger research links between the UK and India to jointly address the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

This pledge from the Hamied Foundation supports a five-year programme of work on AMR to draw on the science bases in the UK and India to share knowledge and create opportunities for collaboration. The programme includes two major scientific meetings and a UK-India visiting fellowship scheme.

We held the first scientific meeting in London in February 2019 and the second will be held in spring 2024 in India. See the specific meeting tabs above for more details. 

 Videos of all talks will be made available on the Academy's YouTube Channel. 

The programme is generously supported by the Yusuf and Farida Hamied Foundation.

Building from the first scientific meeting, the Academy will host the second scientific meeting in spring 2024 in India.

The meeting will look at antimicrobial resistance with a one health approach, bringing in expertise from the UK and India to share successes and to identify areas for future research and policy actions needed to address the challenge of AMR.

This meeting will also build from our 2021 FORUM report - Antimicrobial resistance research: learning lessons from the Covid-10 pandemic.

More details will be available soon.

On Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 February 2019, the Academy of Medical Sciences hosted a two-day meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in London.

The Meeting explored the findings from collaborative research on the interactions of human health, animal health, and the environment alongside the research and policy actions that have been taken in the UK and India to address this challenge. In addition, the symposium helped to identify areas for continued or future research that will impact on policy and action. 

For more information, please see the symposium report and the meeting agenda.

The Academy is grateful to the chair and the steering committee members for their help in organising the meeting and developing the meeting agenda. 

• Professor David Heymann CBE FMedSci [Chair], Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Professor Jeffery Errington FRS FMedSci, Director of the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Newcastle University
• Dr Abdul Ghafur, Coordinator, Chennai declaration on antimicrobial resistance 
• Professor Alison Holmes FMedSci, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London
• Dr Shahid Jameel, Chief Executive Officer, Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance
• Professor Asad Khan, Professor of Biotechnology, Aligarh Muslim University
• Professor Richard Kock, Professor of Wildlife Health and Emerging Diseases, Royal Veterinary College
• Professor Sharon Peacock CBE FMedSci, Honorary Senior Research Fellow; University of Cambridge
• Dr Radha Rangarajan, co-founder and CEO of Vitas Pharma
• Professor Balaji Veeraraghavan, Professor and Head of Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore