DANMAP seminar 2026 on antibiotic use and resistance
Join the DANMAP seminar to hear about the latest findings from the surveillance of antibiotic use and resistance in Denmark. The seminar will take place on 18 November 2026 and is organised by the DTU National Food Institute and Statens Serum Institut.
Thirty years of reports from the DANMAP surveillance programme. Photo: Majda Attauabi.
Thursday 08 October 2026
The partners behind the Danish surveillance programme DANMAP, the DTU National Food Institute and Statens Serum Institut (SSI), invite you to a seminar presenting the latest findings on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in Denmark based on data from 2025. The seminar will be held in person at SSI, with a limited number of places available, as well as online.
The surveillance programme monitors antibiotic use in animals and humans as well as the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals, food and humans in Denmark. The new report presents data from 2025.
The 30th anniversary will be marked with a look back at the development of the DANMAP programme over the past three decades and a look ahead at how the programme can continue to evolve in a changing world.
New report format and competition
From this year, the Summary DANMAP report will change format and will include more cross-sectoral perspectives (i.e. surveillance in humans, animals, food and other areas), with a stronger focus on One Health and on the integrated interpretation of antibiotic use and resistance data.
The DANMAP team is therefore looking for a new name for Summary DANMAP that better reflects the report’s updated content.
The winner will be announced at the DANMAP seminar.
Programme
The seminar will be held in Danish until 11.30 and thereafter in English.
9:00-9:30 Coffee and Posters
9:30-10:00 Welcome by Henrik Caspar Wegener, Denmark's first high-level representative for antimicrobial resistance
10.00-11:30 DANMAP highlights by the editors:
Antimicrobial consumption in humans - Majda Attauabi
Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from patients - Mikkel Lindegaard
Antimicrobial use in animals - Vibe D Andersen
Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from healthy animals and meat - Ana Sofia R Duarte
Antimicrobial resistance in clinical isolates from animals - Lina Cavaco
11:30 -12:15 Lunch and Posters
12:15-14:00 The next 30 years of DANMAP:
Global Pathogen Analysis Platform (GPAP) - Henrik Wegner, DTU National Food Institute
Data-driven model selection for disease spread forecasting - Rasmus Skytte Randløv & Kaare Græsbøll, Statens Serum Institut
Antifungal-resistant fungal infections – Danish and Global scenarios - Karen Astvad, Statens Serum Institut
CC398 Staphylococcus aureus in clinical infections - Andreas Petersen, Statens Serum Institut
14:00-14:15 Coffee break and Posters
14:15-15:30 Keynote lectures:
AMR surveillance – how do we connect the dots between phenomics and genomics - Christian Giske (ECDC)
Environmental AMR surveillance - from detection to decisions - Johan Bengtsson-Palme (Chalmers Institute)
15:30-Closing remarks and reception
All participants are invited to continue the day at the Imperial Cinema, where the Danish AMR-Alliance will premiere their new AMR documentary from 17:00 (registration via link below).
Time
Wednesday, 18 November 2026, 09:00–15:30, followed by a reception.
Venue
Statens Serum Institut
Artillerivej 5
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
Online
A link will be sent a few days before the seminar.
Registration
Participation in the seminar is free of charge, but registration is required. The registration deadline is 4 November 2026 for in-person participation and 15 November 2026 for online participation.
Since 1995, the DANMAP programme has monitored the use of antibiotics in humans and animals in Denmark, as well as the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria from animals, humans and food. DANMAP is one of the world’s longest-running surveillance programmes for antibiotic use and resistance.
Ana Sofia Ribeiro Duarte, Senior Researcher at the DTU National Food Institute, asrd@food.dtu.dk
Majda Attauabi, Pharmacist at Statens Serum Institut, maat@ssi.
