Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a complex global health and sustainability challenge that requires a broad, multidisciplinary approach. A strong focus within the global health theme is to understand new ways of dealing with the challenge of antibiotic resistance and more broadly promoting human wellbeing through stewardship of the global microbiome. Understanding the drivers of this problem, especially distal drivers, is of fundamental importance to unravel the potential to integrate AMR actions with the major agreed agenda for action on societal challenges across the world, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will help answer the question of whether society at a larger scale is heading in a direction where distal drivers can be expected to lead to increasing spread of AMR in the future.

By systematically investigating the present links between AMR and the SDGs, the societal relevance of AMR will be more readily communicated to actors less aware about the downstream consequences of their actions for AMR.

People: Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Luong Nguyen, Ege Pehlivanoglu