17 Nov 2011
The following interview with Ramanan Laxminarayan, Director of CDDEP and its Extending the Cure project, originally appeared on the NewPublicHealth blog of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
27 Oct 2011
Last Wednesday the CDC released an
upbeat piece of epidemiological news: rates of four common types of nosocomial infections decreased
at an impressive pace in 2010, bringing hospitals closer to the nine milestones set
in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Action Plan to Prevent
Healthcare-Associated Infections.
11 Oct 2011
The 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections concluded last week on 5 October 2011. The forum outlined the state of the current challenge of increasing antibiotic access to the developing world while limiting an increase in drug resistance. Immediate and multi-sectoral approaches at the global and domestic level were determined to be the course of action for combatting bacterial infections caused by antibiotic resistance. The New Delhi Call to Action on Preserving the Power of Antibiotics was signed by Hon.
17 Jun 2011
An interesting conversation took place this week between Ezra
Klein (Washington Post), Kevin
Outterson (The Incidental Economist), and Megan
McArdle (The Atlantic) on the emergence of drug-resistant bacte
16 Jun 2011
Zanzibar has reached a crossroads in its efforts to combat malaria, but its successes hinge on continuity of funding for malaria interventions, according to a new article in Science by CDDEP senior fellow David L. Smith and co-authors.
