On this day in 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday and started sorting through some petri dishes containing Staphylococcus that he had left on his bench whilst away. 🏖️🧫 One of the plates caught his eye, and made for the ultimate ContamClub submission:

Are you passionate about making a difference to combat #AntimicrobialResistance? We're recruiting a highly motivated Scientific Lead to deliver IOI's programme on drug discovery for animal health 💊🐖 Full details below👇 Please share with your networks!

Welsh Government Opportunity: PhD Placement – Supporting the Welsh Government’s work to control Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and the Environment *Share widely, pls epwales.org.uk/doctoral-train…

This week, I am in New York for the United Nations General Assembly Week 🗽 With three High-Level Meetings on global health and half time for realising the Sustainable Development Goals, we now need to galvanise and look ahead to next year’s meeting on AMR 💊

📢FUNDING KLAXON: I'm *so* excited about our new #GAMRIF IDRC Animal Health call. I'm incredibly proud of what we created with #InnoVetAMR 1.0, with amazing projects still going strong and a brilliant partnership with our pals IDRC | CRDI. #InnoVetAMR 2.0 will be even better!

📢ALERTE DE FINANCEMENT: Je suis *si* ravie d'annoncer notre appel aux projets #GAMRIF IDRC Animal Health. Trop fière de ce que ns avons créé avec #InnoVetAMR 1.0: projets incroyables tjs en cours & un partenariat super avec nos amis IDRC | CRDI. #InnoVetAMR 2.0 sera encore mieux!

📢Today we have announced up to £295 million of new funding for R&D partnerships to develop the tools and evidence we need to strengthen #GlobalHealthSecurity, drive progress towards #UHC, and end the preventable deaths of mothers, babies, and children. 👉gov.uk/government/new…

One of the best things about my job is my brilliant team Global Health Security, DHSC UK . Claire Oxlade brings energy, enthusiasm, puns, Parkrun inspiration and a dedication to addressing AMR with vim and vigour. 🙏

📢JOB(S) ALERT: Department of Health and Social Care International directorate 🌎🌍🌏(incl. our Global Health Security, DHSC UK gang) are recruiting to several v. cool HEO* roles here: tinyurl.com/9u39njdv. Closing: 11 Oct. Pls share! *see tinyurl.com/kjr8dyua for helpful explainer on Civil Service grades

Malta 🇲🇹 and Barbados 🇧🇧 have been officially appointed co-facilitators for the 2024 United Nations 🇺🇳 General Assembly’s #UNGA High Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance #AMR as per General Assembly resolution 76/257. Let’s get rolling!

Mabrouk dear HananBalkhyحنان بلخي ! Your loss to us in #AMR is WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean ‘s enormous gain, and with your appointment, you’re showing the power of women and girls to make a difference at all levels of society. #GlobalHealthGirlPower

#GAMRIF is excited to join the BactiVac Network Network Meeting today, listening to some fascinating updates from scientists working on neglected pathogens and hearing how we can ensure new #vaccines are accessible to the people who need them most. #BactiVacEvents #VaccinesWork

This timeline of how #gonorrhea has developed resistance to the antibiotics used to treat it shows you how badly the world needs new gonorrhea cures. A new one seems on the horizon. Timeline from a paper by Magnus Unemo & William Shafer. statnews.com/2023/11/01/new…

🦠#GAMRIF partner BactiVac Network invests in #vaccine research to combat some of the trickiest drug resistant infections. 💉Learn more 👇 how #vaccines can #StopSuperbugs #WAAW2023 #VaccinesWork #UKResearch4Dev

🇬🇧 proud to support this game-changing new #antibiotic through our #GAMRIF fund - Zoliflodacin will be a force for good around the 🌍 🙏Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP) Find out more 👇

Thank you Denmark in UK for hosting a great symposium on #AMR - a great way to end (nearly) #WAAW2023 🦠 Global Health Security, DHSC UK

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