Speakers:

• Prof Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director-General for Antimicrobial resistance, WHO
• Dr Manica Balasegaram, Executive Director, GARDP
• Dr Dhanya Dharmapalan, pediatrician and member of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society (PIDS), Mumbai
• Dr Borna Nyaoke, Senior Clinical Project Manager, DNDi Kenya

Moderator: Dr Peter Beyer, Senior Advisor, AMR Division, World Health Organization

The webinar, organized in collaboration with WHO, was held on the occasion of Universal Children’s Day and during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. It focused on the challenges in treating newborns suffering from drug-resistant sepsis and finding new treatment options.