27 Jan 2012
With a new year comes new initiatives, and CDDEP is launching 2012 with a visualization series to help shed light on topics in health and development. We
start with a graphic from our Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership, on
global trends in macrolide antibiotic use.
26 Jan 2012
The Economist interviewed CDDEP friend and collaborator
Petra Klepac on optimal vaccination strategies, asking, under
what circumstances does it make good economic and epidemiological sense to
invest your resources in vaccinating neighboring communities?
18 Jan 2012
It was a “why didn’t I think of
that?” moment: an article called “Forgotten Antibiotics: An Inventory in
Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia,” in the January 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID).
17 Jan 2012
January 13th marked a full year since the last reported polio case in India - a major milestone for public health. Can India take this success to other health challenges in the country, including other vaccine-preventable diseases? Ramanan Laxminarayan, CDDEP Director and Vice President for Research and Policy at the Public Health Foundation of India, joined CNN-IBN to discuss the issue with Dr. Nata Menabde of the WHO. Watch below:
12 Jan 2012
This post originally appeared on Pioneering Ideas: A discussion about breakthrough ideas in health and health care from the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is authored by the RWJF blog team.
