Membership
Current Officers
All Members
| Mamoon Aldeyab (UK) |
| Ian Gould (UK) |
| Souha Kanj (Lebanon) |
| Gabriel Levy Hara (Argentina) |
| Fiona MacKenzie (UK) |
| Miki Nagao (Japan) |
| Linus Ndegwa (Kenya) |
| Jeroen Schouten (Netherlands) |
| Huong Vu Thi Lan (Vietnam) |
| Fee Johnstone (Secretariat) |
How to Join
ISAC Working Groups are open to new members with a strong interest and relevant experience in the given field. To join an ISAC Working Group, please contact Fee Johnstone, ISAC Executive Officer secretariat@isac.world with your name and a brief C.V. We welcome new members!
Overview
Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) is now under the auspices of International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC).
Stuart Levy’s prophetic warnings (made during an era of plentiful antibiotics) about antibiotic overuse and the emergence of resistance have come to full fruition. He co-founded and led APUA for 37 years: it was the first organisation to address antibiotic preservation and continues to provide a strong voice in the field despite the subsequent emergence of many other organisations and groups addressing a topic which has become a specialty in its own right; that of “antibiotic stewardship”. Towards the end of last year, Stuart Levy’s retirement from APUA and Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston was announced. He was a trailblazer and, in APUA, leaves a very strong legacy.
Stuart’s retirement was an opportunity for the APUA Board to review its leadership and governance and it took the opportunity to seek a partner organisation with which to synergise. This led to the merger of APUA with the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC), effective from February 2019.
In the sections that follow, you can view APUA's activities since its merger with ISAC. For more on APUA and its history, please visit www.APUA.org
Newsletters
Since 1982, the APUA Newsletter has been a continuous source of non-commercial information disseminated without charge to healthcare practitioners, researchers, and policy-makers worldwide. The Newsletter carries up-to-date scientific and clinical information on prudent antibiotic use and management of antibiotic resistance.
| Volume 43, No 1 - Summer 2025 |
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Volume 42, No 2 - Autumn 2024 |
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Volume 42, No 1 - Spring 2024 |
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Volume 41, No 3 - Winter 2023 |
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Volume 41, No. 2 - Summer 2023 |
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Volume 41, No 1 - Spring 2023 |
To read more past issues of the APUA Newsletter, visit the APUA website.
Webinars
Viral respiratory tract infections: superinfections
Watch the on-demand recording to hear from three worldwide experts in the field of superinfections who shared with us the main features of these hot topics.
The fight against antimicrobial resistance: a luta continua!
Experts provided updates on the current AMR situation worldwide, with a particular focus on low- to middle- income countries (LMICs) and the efforts to fight it.
Antibiotic cards
The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) is proud to announce the launch of the third batch of ‘Antibiotic cards’ for a further five antibiotics currently in use. The latest cards are: Cefepime, Ceftazidime-Avibactam, Ciprofloxacin, Levofloxacin, Piperacillin-Tazobactam
This project aims to provide a summary of the main characteristics of selected antibiotics. These antibiotic cards have been primarily designed to assist the prescribers in the selection of the most appropriate antibiotic, with optimal dosages, and to provide guidance to those who take care of patients who receive antibiotics. These antibiotic cards have been produced by members of the APUA board and colleagues, with no support from the pharmaceutical industry, and are available free of charge. They share a common design, with a special focus on their antimicrobial spectrum, main indications, dosing, and adverse events. We hope that you will find them useful and that these antibiotic cards will contribute to better use of antibiotics worldwide, the primary goal of APUA.
Congresses
| November 2024 |
International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ICC) |
| November 2022 |
International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ICC) |
| November 2022 |
Infections in Surgery, Global Webinar |
| November 2019 |
International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ICC) |
Publications
| Kanj SS, Haddad SF, Meis JF, Verweij PE, Voss A, Rautemaa-Richardson R, Levy-Hara G, Chowdhary A, Ghafur A, Brüggemann R, Bal AM, Schouten J. The battle against fungi- lessons in antifungal stewardship from COVID-19 times: a consensus statement on behalf of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Study Group for Antimicrobial Stewardship, and European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Fungal Infection Study Group. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2023 May 13:106846. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2023.106846. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37187336; PMCID: PMC10181945. |
| Zakhour J, Haddad SF, Kerbage A, Wertheim H, Tattevin P, Voss A, Ünal S, Ouedraogo AS, Kanj SS; International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) and the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA). Diagnostic stewardship in infectious diseases: a continuum of antimicrobial stewardship in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2023 Apr 13;62(1):106816. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2023.106816. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37061101. |
| Tattevin P, Levy Hara G, Toumi A, Enani M, Coombs G, Voss A, Wertheim H, Poda A, Daoud Z, Laxminarayan R, Nathwani D, Gould I. Advocacy for Increased International Efforts for Antimicrobial Stewardship Actions in Low-and Middle-Income Countries on Behalf of Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antimicrobials (APUA), Under the Auspices of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC). Front Med (Lausanne). 2020 Aug 25;7:503. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.00503. PMID: 32984380; PMCID: PMC7479847. |
| Schouten J, De Waele J, Lanckohr C, Koulenti D, Haddad N, Rizk N, Sjövall F, Kanj SS; Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA). Antimicrobial stewardship in the ICU in COVID-19 times: the known unknowns. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2021 Oct;58(4):106409. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2021.106409. Epub 2021 Jul 30. PMID: 34339777; PMCID: PMC8323503. |
For the full list of APUA publications prior to 2019, please visit the APUA website.
Videos
To acknowledge World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2020, APUA Board members have recorded a series of short, informative videos on antibiotic resistance (AMR) during COVID-19.
Last updated: July 8th-2025
