AVPH Webinar | Antibiotics are gone once administered … right? Flushing out the fate of antibiotics through wastewater analysis | Dr Jake O’Brien
July 30 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm AEST
Free - $50.00
Antibiotics revolutionised infectious disease treatment, but antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is rendering them ineffective. AMR is a critical and rapidly developing global One Health threat. But what happens to antibiotics once consumed? This talk looks at antibiotics in domestic wastewater and what implications this may have for the animal sector.
Who should attend
Veterinarians / Students / Nurses / Practice Managers
Learning outcomes
At the completion of this webinar, participants will have had the opportunity to:
- Explore current issues relating to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) within a One Health context.
- Consider the presence of antibiotics in domestic wastewater.
- Gain awareness of potential implications for the animal sector.
Further details
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Our speakers
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- Dr Jake O'Brien
- Biography
Jake O’Brien is Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS), The University of Queensland. His main field of interest is in wastewater-based epidemiology, but he also has interest in developing analytical methods for chemicals of emerging concern within biological and environmental samples. His current NHMRC fellowship aims to develop a national framework for monitoring antimicrobial resistance (AMR) via wastewater analysis
