Governance


Professor Dame Sally Davies

Dame Sally is the first UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance. Before this, she was Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK government from March 2011 to September 2019, having held the post on an interim basis since June 2010.

Dame Sally advocates globally for action and awareness on AMR. She has become a leading figure in global health, including serving as a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016. Dame Sally has spoken on AMR at numerous events including the World Health Assembly side events, the G8 science ministers’ meeting in 2015, the Global Health Security Initiative in 2015, and the UN General Assembly side events in 2016 and 2019.

She was chair of the 2013 AMR forum at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) and was for three years the chair of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on AMR. Most recently, Dame Sally was appointed as a co-convener of the UN Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group on AMR, set up in response to the AMR declaration made at UNGA 2016. She is a driving force behind the 2020 Investor Year of Action on AMR, a joint initiative between the UK Department of Health and Social Care, the Access to Medicine Foundation, the FAIRR Initiative and the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.

Dame Sally was instrumental in establishing the Fleming Fund when she was Chief Medical Officer, and now acts as an adviser to the Fleming Fund, UK Global Innovation Fund and other UK government funded AMR activities overseas. In the 2020 New Year Honours, Dame Sally became the second woman (and the first outside the Royal family) to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research, having received her DBE in 2009.

Technical Advisory Group

The Fleming Fund’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) consists of 15 experts in AMR across the One Health sectors, who provide independent technical advice and expertise to support programmatic decisions and shape the strategic direction of the fund.

Policies & Accountability

Commitment to Safeguarding

Data Standardisation

Data Sharing

ODA Funding