Dr. Jae-Hoon Song was invited as a Chairperson to a consultation meeting on strategies for global surveillance of AMR organized by WHO which was held on Dec 18-19, 2012 at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Drs. Doo Ryeon Chung and So Hyun Kim attended the meeting together with Dr. Song.



In order to improve global AMR surveillance and explore opportunities for collaboration, the existing global AMR surveillance networks and the capabilities, methods, and data that are needed to develop an effective surveillance system were reviewed and knowledge gaps related to AMR surveillance were discussed at the WHO meeting.