Governing Global Antimicrobial Resistance: 6 Key Lessons From the Paris Climate Agreement

Isaac Weldon1, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk1, Gian Luca Burci1

  • 1Isaac Weldon, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, A. M. Viens, and Steven J. Hoffman are with the Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gian Luca Burci is with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. Thana C. de Campos is with the School of Government, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Mark Eccleston-Turner is with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London, United Kingdom. Helen R. Fryer is with the Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Alberto Giubilini and Julian Savulescu are with the Oxford Martin School and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. Thomas Hale is with the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Mark Harrison is with the Faculty of History and Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Stephanie Johnson is with the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre, University of Oxford. Claas Kirchhelle is with the School of History, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Kelley Lee is with the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Kathleen Liddell is with the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Marc Mendelson is with the Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Gorik Ooms is with the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. James Orbinski and Mary E. Wiktorowicz are with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University. Laura J. V. Piddock is with the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland. John-Arne Røttingen is with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo, Norway. Andrew C. Singer is with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom. Clare Wenham is with the Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London. Shehla Zaidi is with the Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

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