Afreenish Amir

National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan

Dr. Afreenish Amir (MD, M.Phil (Microbiology), MPH, PhD (Microbiology) medical microbiologist with over thirteen years of experience in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases; currently working as Technical Officer Antimicrobial Resistance and Project Director National Fungal Disease Surveillance System at National Institute of Health, Pakistan. She is working on implementation of National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention and Control, GLASS, AMR and AMC Surveillance, Stewardship and Advocacy in Pakistan. She is working on Pakistan AMR Surveillance System (PASS), Asia Pathogens Genomics Initiative, Tricycle One Health AMR Surveillance Project (WHO), Environmental Surveillance of Cholera, LQMS trainings and National Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. She has 51 publications in national and international journals and many are underway. She is a Harvard Kennedy School and GCSP Geneva alumna (on Global Health Security), GIBACHT fellow on biosafety and biosecurity (Germany), Lead Auditor ISO 9001:2015 (CQI, IRCA UK, Hong Kong Veritas HKV), Chair Emerging Leaders program in Infectious Diseases ISID (USA), Visiting Faculty Rawalpindi Medical University, Visiting Faculty Al-Shifa School of Public Health, member of, “WHO Advisory Group on the Bacterial Priority Pathogen List,” and Consultant Clinical Microbiology for American Society of Microbiology USA.