Professor Mirfin Mpundu is the Co-founder and Executive Director of ReAct Africa, where he has supported numerous countries across Africa and Asia in developing, reviewing, and implementing their One Health National Action Plans on AMR. He is an international public health expert with over 30 years of global leadership experience in infectious diseases, AMR, and One Health. He also served as Senior AMR Advisor at USAID, where he managed strategic engagement and provided oversight for the Emerging Threats Division’s involvement in AMR across U.S. Government interagency platforms and multilateral policy fora. Prof. Mpundu has held senior leadership roles with the ICARS and previously served as Executive Director of the EPN. Over the course of his career, he has worked in close collaboration with major global and regional institutions, including the World Bank, WHO, FAO, WOAH, Africa CDC, SADC, and UNCTAD. He serves as a Diseases departmenr faculty member for Global Health at the GIPH in India, City, University of London, and the University of Cape Town Infectious. He serves on several high-level advisory and governance platforms, including as a member of the WHO STAG-AMR, Co-Chair of the External Advisory Board for the Newton AMR Drug Discovery Program.