David Graham is Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Newcastle University (UK), and has led numerous antimicrobial resistance (AMR), pollution prevention, and other surveillance projects around the world for almost 40 years. He co-led writing the 2023 UNEP report “Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening Environmental Action in the One Health Response to Antimicrobial Resistance” and co-leads integration for the upcoming Quadripartite Guide on One Health Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Use and Resistance. He co-initiated the Pan-American Network for Environmental Epidemiology (PANACEA) and co-authored the 2021 World Economic Forum report on the economics of waterborne AMR. Domestically, he was a member of the Strategic Advisory Group for Emergencies sub-group on COVID-19 Transmission in the Wider Environment and the Expert Advisory Group who operationalised the UK wastewater surveillance network during the pandemic.

Graham is a Chartered Professional Civil Engineer with expertise spanning fluid mechanics to microbial genetics to environmental chemistry, providing him a broad background suited to integrated AMR studies, i.e., from hydrologic modelling to metagenomics. He also is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Research Professor in the Department of Biosciences at the University of Durham (UK). His current interests range from the ecology of AMR gene transfer to identifying research and communication gaps that hinder One Health solutions.