International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions
Dr. Kristina Osbjer is a Swedish veterinarian (DVM) with a PhD in epidemiology and veterinary public health. Her experience spans from mitigation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to control of zoonotic and high impact transboundary animal diseases, climate change, food safety and One Health collaboration, primarily in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Her professional career begun in large and small animal clinical practice before she joined the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in 2007, based first in Lao PDR followed by the regional office for Eastern Africa, and as Team Lead in Cambodia, working on the preparedness, prevention and control of avian influenza, AMR and other emerging One Health threats. In 2016, she defended her doctoral thesis on One Health perspectives of influenza and Campylobacter and risk factors for zoonotic disease transmission in rural LMIC settings for the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and from 2019 she divided her time between research at SLU and as Technical Advisor for FAO with the AMR, climate change and emerging infectious and zoonotic diseases portfolio in Asia. In June 2022, she joined the International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions (ICARS) where she is working as a Senior Science Advisor on supporting LMICs with adapted interventions and scalable solutions to tackle AMR and climate change across the One Health spectrum. Since March 2024 she is also serving as Honorary Associate Professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.