Sabiha Essack is the South African Research Chair in Antibiotic Resistance and One Health and Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is the co-lead of the Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform Action Group on “Stewardship across the Lifecycle of Antimicrobials: a One Health Approach” and member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for AMR (STAG-AMR). Sabiha serves as the Senior Implementation Research Advisor to the International Centre for AMR Solutions (ICARS) based in Denmark and chairs the Global Respiratory Infection Partnership (GRIP). She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Futures Council for AMR, a member of the International Pharmacy Federation (FIP) AMR Commission, a member of the Wellcome Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug Resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC), and she serves on the Advisory Board of the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) and the Fleming Fund Expert Advisory Group. Her research focuses on the molecular epidemiology of AMR using next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics, as well as One Health systems strengthening in the context of AMR.