Professor Constance Schultsz is an MD, Medical Microbiologist and Professor of Global Health, in particular for emerging infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance, at the Amsterdam UMC of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Her research interests include zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, in particular Streptococcus suis, and antibiotic resistance. She is interested in molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis, next-generation sequencing applications, smart sampling strategies for antimicrobial resistance surveillance, as well as behavioural and socio-economic drivers of antimicrobial resistance. Constance Schultsz is the coordinator of the EU JPI-AMR consortium HECTOR and Chair of the Public Private Partnership AMR-Global.

Constance Schultsz has previously worked as a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR) in Dhaka, Bangladesh and worked as a consultant microbiologist at the VU University Medical Centre. From 2003 until 2008 she headed the Microbiology department at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 2008 she joined the Amsterdam UMC in the departments of Global Health and Medical Microbiology. She was appointed Deputy Head of the Department of Global Health in 2016 and at the same time became an executive board member of the AIGHD.