The Microbiology Society is a member of the Learned Society Partnership on Antimicrobial Resistance (LeSPAR), a partnership of learned societies representing 75,000 scientists that has come together to lead the fight against antimicrobial resistance. The other members of LeSPAR are the Royal Society of Chemistry, Biochemical Society, Society for Applied Microbiology, British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and Royal Society of Biology. LeSPAR published a statement in response to the approval of the World Health Organization Global Action Plan on AMR.
