Afreenish Amir, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Afreenish Amir, Ph.D., MBBS, MPH, M.Phil, is a medical microbiologist with more than 14 years of experience in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases. She is working on the implementation of the U.S. National Action Plan on One Health antimicrobial resistance, laboratory systems, AMR and AMC surveillance, stewardship and advocacy. She has been engaged in Pakistan AMR Surveillance System (PASS), Candida auris fungal diagnostics, the Asia Pathogens Genomics Initiative, Tricycle One Health Integrated AMR Surveillance (World Health Organization), environmental surveillance of cholera, laboratory quality management system trainings and national antimicrobial stewardship program.
She has 63 publications in national and international journals. She is a Global Partnership Initiated Biosecurity Academia for Controlling Health Threats (GIBACHT) fellow on biosafety and biosecurity (Germany), visiting faculty at Rawalpindi Medical University, a member of WHO Advisory Group on the Bacterial Priority Pathogen List and Expert Group for WHO Global AMR Research Agenda in human health. She also serves as Board Director for Mehnaz Fatima Foundation Gilgit and as a consultant in clinical microbiology for the American Society for Microbiology.
She has 63 publications in national and international journals. She is a Global Partnership Initiated Biosecurity Academia for Controlling Health Threats (GIBACHT) fellow on biosafety and biosecurity (Germany), visiting faculty at Rawalpindi Medical University, a member of WHO Advisory Group on the Bacterial Priority Pathogen List and Expert Group for WHO Global AMR Research Agenda in human health. She also serves as Board Director for Mehnaz Fatima Foundation Gilgit and as a consultant in clinical microbiology for the American Society for Microbiology.