Jorge Matheu | Team Lead - Impact Initiatives and Research Coordination Unit
World Health Organization

Team Lead of Global Initiatives and Instruments, Department of Global Coordination and Partnership of AMR, AMR division, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland. He is a Chemistry Biologist from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, Master's Degree in Public Health by Rafael Landivar University. From 2000 to 2009, Head of the Bacteriology Department in the National Laboratory of Health of the MoH, Guatemala. From 2010-2015 worked as a Specialist on Antimicrobial Resistance at The Pan American Health Organization supporting and coordinating the Latin American Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (ReLAVRA). From 2015 to 2019, project officer at the Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses at the World Health Organization in Geneva Switzerland, coordinating capacity-building activities of the Global Foodborne Diseases Network and supporting and coordinating the activities of the Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance on AMR (AGISAR). In 2020, worked as Team Lead for Laboratory Strengthening and Integrated Surveillance of AMR in the Department of Surveillance, Prevention and Control of AMR of the AMR division. In 2021, started as a Team Lead in the Impact Initiatives and Research Coordination unit at the Department of Global Coordination and Partnership, AMR Division, WHO headquarters.