[Event Report] The Third Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) (July 17, 2020)
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- [Event Report] The Third Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) (July 17, 2020)
Nikkei Inc. and AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)) jointly held the Second Meeting of Working Group 1 Under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC).
Working groups (WG) were established under the Sub-committee on AMR of the Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) in order to discuss the state of the antimicrobial market.
At this third meeting of WG1, participants discussed the design and introduction of pull incentives, specifically for Japan.
On the basis of WG discussions, participants agreed to join the second sub-committee on AMR and continue to work hard toward the eventual formulation of a concrete proposal on ways to incentivize antimicrobial R&D in the future.
In light of the situation with novel coronavirus, this meeting was carried out primarily online. On-site participants were encouraged to keep a safe physical distance from each other.
■Overview
Date and time: Friday, July 17, 2020
Organizer: AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: HGPI)
■Discussion
WG1 Members (alphabetical order by last name):
Kazuyuki Akai (Director, Business Development, Nippon Becton Dickinson Company, Ltd.)
Yusuke Ariyoshi (Director, Healthcare Policy, Government Affairs Dept., Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)
Masashi Kawata (Senior Manager, Public Affairs & Policy, Corporate Affairs, Health & Value, Pfizer Japan Inc.)
Tatsuro Kuzuki (Scientific Liaison, DNDi Japan)
Shoji Miyagawa (Director, Division of Basic Medical Research, Department of Basic Medical Research, The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED))
Kazumasa Oguro (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University)
Akio Ozaki (Director, Public and Industry Policy, Health Policy, MSD K. K.)
Yosuke Sugiyama (Manager, Trade Associations & Regional Support, Global Public Affairs, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited)
Satoshi Takagi (Business Director, Integrated Diagnostic Solutions, Medication Management Solutions, Nippon Becton Dickinson Company, Ltd.)
Yasunori Tawaragi (Director, International Affairs, Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association)
Moderator:
Yui Kohno (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat/Associate, HGPI)
Secretariat (alphabetical order by last name):
Matt McEnany (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat/Senior Manager, HGPI)
Tomohito Shibata (AMR Alliance Japan Secretariat/Senior Associate, HGPI)
Chiaki Toma (The Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) Project, Nikkei Inc.)
Mio Wakasa (The Nikkei Asia Africa Conference on Communicable Diseases – Asia Africa Medical Innovation Consortium (AMIC) Project, Nikkei Inc.)
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