Wellcome Trust Makes AMR Strategic Priority After Funding O'Neill Review
Executive Summary
Britain's well-endowed and influential Wellcome Trust which co-funded the O'Neill Review on how to tackle antimicrobial resistance has now made AMR one of its strategic priorities and aims to raise its profile with it. Wellcome policy head Ed Whiting outlines next steps in an interview with the Pink Sheet.
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