One Health webinar

Date: 13 November 2025

To mark World AMR Awareness Week, ISAC is hosting a session featuring new research from the "One Health" Special Issue in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, an ISAC journal.

This 60-minute session will highlight how the One Health approach is essential in combating Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) across human, animal, and environmental health.

Key topics include:

* AMR in clinical and veterinary contexts
* Environmental transmission pathways
* Integrated surveillance and management strategies

Moderated by:

Reema Singh (IJAA Associate Editor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization)
Heiman Wertheim (ISAC President Elect, RadboudUMC)

Presenting Authors:

Prof. Yonghong Xiao (Guest Editor for IJAA One Health VSI)

Other presenting authors to be announced soon.

Available on-demand throughout World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW).

SPEAKER BIOS

Dr Reema Singh is a Bioinformatician and Data Manager at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Dr Singh works on large-scale genomic and transcriptomic datasets to revolutionize the understanding of various human and animal pathogens. Dr Singh has generated a database “Dlact” which consists of 2020 ß-lactamases from 457 bacterial strains which were further classified using graph-based clustering of best-bidirectional hits to identify the group-specific signature of ß-lactamases. Dr Singh has also developed a computational pipeline, called Gen2Epi, to assemble short-reads into full genomes and automatically assign molecular epidemiological and AMR information to the assembled genomes.

Prof. Heiman Wertheim is Professor and Head of Clinical Microbiology at Radboud University Medical Center and chairs the Radboud Center of Infectious Diseases. Formerly Director of OUCRU in Vietnam, he led research on zoonoses, hospital infections, and antibiotic resistance. His work spans health systems, policy, surveillance, prevention, genomics, and clinical trials. He coordinated GARP Vietnam, established a national AMR lab, and demonstrated CRP testing reduces antibiotic use. He leads the ABACUS project on community antibiotic use in Asia and Africa, contributes to GAIN, the Dutch Health Council, WHO STAG-AMR, and consults for WHO in Ukraine.

Prof. Yonghong Xiao, MD, PhD, is a Professor and Principal Investigator, currently serving as Vice-Director of the State Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases at the First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University. He also served as Guest Editor for the One Health Special Issue in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (IJAA).