Publications

August 2016
East Africa Public Health Laboratory Networking Project
Antibiotic Resistance
Strengthening the Role of Laboratories in Tracking Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in East AfricaRead more
March 2016
Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Food Animals: Current Policy and Recommendations
Antibiotic Resistance
September 2015
The State of the World's Antibiotics, 2015
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
July 2015
GARP-Mozambique Situation Analysis
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
July 2015
GARP-Tanzania Situation Analysis
Antibiotic Resistance
February 2015
The Economic Costs of Withdrawing Antimicrobial Growth Promoters in the Livestock Sector
Antibiotic Resistance
September 2014
Report to the President on Combating Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance
September 2014
Policies to Address Antibiotic Resistance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
December 2013
Reinvesting in health post-2015
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
November 2013
Economics and Financing of Febrile Illness RDTs: Report of Consultation 2
Disease Control Priorities
This consultation continues a process begun in Seattle in October 2011. It will provide an opportunity to discuss past experience with large-scale interventions to expand RDT use, in both the public and the (formal and informal) private sectors and in urban and rural settings. Additionally...Read more
November 2013
Economics and Financing of Febrile Illness RDTs: Report of Consultation 1
November 2013
Antibiotic Resistance - the need for global solutions
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate change are evident. Many efforts have been made to describe the many different facets of antibiotic resistance and the...Read more
October 2012
Primaquine for reducing Plasmodium falciparum transmission (Review)
Malaria, Malaria
Should people treated for malaria caused by P. falciparum infection take a single dose of primaquine along with primary treatment?Read more
August 2011
Situation Analysis: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in South Africa
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
What is the burden of bacterial infections, including antibiotic resistant infections, in South Africa, and what can be done to improve health for the population?Read more
August 2011
Situation Analysis and Recommendations: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Kenya, Executive Summary
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
This report surveys antibiotic use and resistance in Kenya and offers actionable policy proposals to lessen the burden of bacterial infections in the country.Read more
August 2011
Situation Analysis and Recommendations: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Kenya
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
This report surveys antibiotic use and resistance in Kenya and offers actionable policy proposals to lessen the burden of bacterial infections in the country.Read more
March 2011
Situation Analysis: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in India, Executive Summary
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
What do we know about treatment access and antibiotic resistance in India?Read more
March 2011
Situation Analysis: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in India
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
What do we know about treatment access and antibiotic resistance in India?Read more
February 2011
Situation Analysis: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Vietnam, Executive Summary
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
February 2011
Situation Analysis: Antibiotic Use and Resistance in Vietnam
Antibiotic Resistance, Environmental Health, Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
December 2010
An Exploratory Pilot Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions Concerning Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Use Practices among Hospital Staff in Kenya
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
What is the knowledge and what are the perceptions of hospital staff in Kenya on antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use practices?Read more
October 2010
The value of information: Methodological Frontiers and New Applications for Realizing Social Benefit workshop
Malaria, Environmental Health
What is meant by value of information? When does information have value? What are state-of-the-practice methods to ascribe value to information?Read more
August 2010
Operational Challenges of Implementing Multiple First-Line Therapies for Malaria in Endemic Countries
Malaria, Malaria
Multiple first-line therapies (MFT) have the potential to decrease mortality and morbidity while maximizing the useful therapeutic life of ACTs by delaying the development of drug resistance. However, the effectiveness and success of any strategy will also depend on the financial and operational...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health and Traditional Fuel Use in Guatemala
Environmental Health, Environmental Health
Recent statistics from the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Asistencia Social (MSPAS) in Guatemala indicate that between 1997 and 2000 acute respiratory infection (ARI) was the single most important cause of morbidity and mortality in Guatemala.2 In this period, the number of cases of morbidity due to...Read more
May 2010
Valuing Health Outcomes: Policy Choices and Technical Issues
Environmental Health, Environmental Health
May 2010
Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach
Disease Control Priorities, Antibiotic Resistance
May 2010
Closing India's Nutrition Gap: The Role of Golden Mustard in Fighting Vitamin A Deficiency
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
Humans need vitamin A for such essential processes as growth, vision, and resistance to infectious disease. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) arises from prolonged inadequate intake combined with periods of higher physiological demand, such as during childhood growth spurts, pregnancy, and lactation, or...Read more
May 2010
Extending the Cure: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
Extending the Cure presents the problem of antibiotic resistance as a conflict between individual decision makers and their short-term interest and the interest of society as a whole.Read more
May 2010
Choosing Health: An Entitlement for all Indians
Health and Development, Disease Control Priorities
How should the Indian health system reform to attain levels of health similar to those in other progressive democracies?Read more