- March 13, 2020Mass tests vital to map coronavirus spread after first death in India
LiveMint — March 13, 2020. “We know it’s a highly infectious pathogen. We know it’s in India. We know that people can be asymptomatic for a while,” Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, said. “We should probably start planning to convert a few stadiums in the cities to prepare […]
Read moreRead more Read More - March 10, 2020Routine childhood vaccination linked to improved schooling among adults in India
Researchers at CDDEP, Sam Houston State University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health assessed the effect of routine childhood vaccination on schooling attainment among adults in India.
Read moreRead more Read More - March 9, 2020Covid-19: A response now will help mitigate impact | Opinion.
Hindustan Times– March 9, 2020. By Ramanan Laxminarayan. It is better to react now, than be unprepared later and risk millions of lives. Individuals must take responsibility.
Read moreRead more Read More - February 20, 2020Healthcare in India needs urgent injection of funds.
Media India Group– February 20, 2020. The majority of the world’s annual 5.7 million antibiotic-treatable deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries where the mortality burden from treatable bacterial infections far exceeds the estimated annual 700,000 deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections. “Lack of access to antibiotics kills more people currently than does antibiotic resistance, but we […]
Read moreRead more Read More - February 9, 2020Why is coronavirus spreading so fast.
Live Mint– February 9, 2020. “Population pressures mean that we are increasingly coming in contact with live animals, mostly for food. 72 billion animals (chicken, poultry, cattle and goats) are killed each year but they all have the potential to transmit new viruses to us,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director, the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & […]
Read moreRead more Read More - January 25, 2020The age, sex, and symptoms of China’s coronavirus victims.
The Economic Times-January 25, 2020. “If this virus can be transmitted without causing fever, then it’s easier for the infection to travel globally because it can simply stay under the radar for a while,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, D.C.
Read moreRead more Read More - January 21, 2020Antibiotic Resistance: How to tackle AMR in Africa.
Down To Earth– January 21, 2020. A drug resistance index (DRI) — developed by researchers from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), Washington and Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Georgia — was used to track global trends in effectiveness of antibiotic therapy in 41 countries in 2018. The result showed […]
Read moreRead more Read More - January 18, 2020Bacteria tolerant of one antibiotic more likely to develop resistance.
Deccan Herald- January 18, 2020. The study, although small, reveals a major threat to the way doctors currently think about combination antibiotics, says Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, DC, who was not involved in the work. “Our entire approach to antibiotics is going to have to be rethought,” […]
Read moreRead more Read More - January 16, 2020Fight against antibiotic crisis stymied by lack of R&D spend.
SciDev– January 16, 2020- Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington DC, said that despite undoubted progress on AMR in terms of surveillance, awareness and action plans, “the age of privately funded antibiotic development is over unless the economics change radically”.
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