Across the New Conceptions miniseries, we've made the case that AMR must be addressed not only as a biomedical challenge but also as a social challenge. We've explored a series of conceptions that can reshape the global action plan revisions: antimicrobial resistance as socio-ecological dynamics, as infrastructure woven through daily life, and as a challenge shaped by urbanization, social inequities, and global systems.

In this episode of Unpacking AMR, Daniela Corno speaks with Dr. Laura Valtere and Dr. Daniel Carelli to unpack AMR as a collective action problem, a global challenge that cuts across human, animal, plant, and environmental health, and pulls in players from industry, academia, healthcare, and civil society. It's a vast patchwork of actors, each with their own competing interests and limited incentives to cooperate across borders. Together they explore how resistance pays no attention to national borders, why national action plans often fall short of their promises, and what it might take to build the trust, capacity, and authority that real cooperation demands. 

This is the fourth and final episode in our "New Conceptions to Manage AMR" miniseries, which has explored how social science can reframe the way we think about antimicrobial resistance and strengthen the next global action plan. It’s the last of the series, but not of the podcast! Stay tuned for more episodes of Unpacking AMR.