Date: January 2025
Session Title: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Paediatrics: Bridging Clinical Practice and Research
Name: Dr Jonathan Cohen
Job title: Consultant and Head of Service in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Speaker bio: Jonathan Cohen is Consultant and Head of Service in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, where he has worked since 2021. Prior to this, he was a consultant at University College London Hospitals, providing paediatric input for the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Jonathan provides care to children and young people in South East London and the surrounding area. He has diverse clinical and research interests in tuberculosis and other respiratory infections, inflammatory disease, imported and parasitic infections, antimicrobial stewardship, diagnostics and vaccination.
He is Secretary of the British Paediatric Allergy, Infection & Immunity Group and Co-Chair of the British Association for Paediatric Tuberculosis which he established with colleagues in 2017. He has a PhD in the immunology of pneumococcal disease and is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Kings College London.

Learning Objectives:
In this session, we will focus on the following topics;
• What will destroy humanity first: antimicrobial resistance or global warming
• How to use antibiotics today so we can keep using them tomorrow
• What research tells us about this
• What research can’t tell us about this
• What you can do to help

If you have any questions, please contact the RCPCH Learning team.