Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope is the Lead Pharmacist for healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at UK Health Security Agency, the Department of Health Expert Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI). She Chairs the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR) oversight group and World Antimicrobial Awareness Week Planning Group. She is also Honorary Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health at the University of Nottingham.
An antimicrobial pharmacist by background, Diane has led several projects that have shaped national and international policy in tackling antimicrobial resistance, including Start Smart then Focus, Antimicrobial Prescribing and Stewardship Competences, and creating the global Antibiotic Guardian campaign in 2014. From 2016 until March 2022, she was advisor and Global AMR lead for the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association.
Later this month we're relaunching Antibiotic Guardian. This ongoing campaign first launched in September 2014 and encourages members of the public and healthcare professionals to make a pledge to state how they will personally help to conserve our antibiotics. Antibiotic Guardian is …
Antibiotics are essential for treating many infections but they’re losing their effectiveness. Bacteria are fighting back by adapting and finding ways of surviving the effects of our medicines. The bugs are smart – they can naturally become resistant to antibiotics …
Today PHE launches Antibiotic Guardian, a pledge campaign which forms a key part of the UK’s support for European Antibiotic Awareness Day and the wider fight against antibiotic resistance. This campaign matters because we have to stop the overuse and …
