Publication: Policy Options for Antimicrobial Resistance: Exploring Lessons From Environmental Governance Link Authors: Isaac Weldon, Kathleen Liddell, Kevin Outterson Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis. It happens when bacteria and other microbes evolve to survive the drugs meant to kill them. As a result, common infections become harder—and sometimes impossible—to treat. AMR […]
How will the IPEA provide solutions that are representative of AMR in low, middle, and high resource settings? What are some potential challenges that the IPEA may face in its development stage? What are the short and long-term priorities of the IPEA? We discuss all of this and more in Episode 7 of Unpacking AMR.
Publication: Policy discourse on AMR in food-producing animals: examining framing and language for effective communication Link Authors: Carly Ching, Muhammad H Zaman, Veronika J Wirtz Introduction The overuse of antibiotics in agriculture and when raising food-producing animals can lead to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which makes infections difficult or impossible to treat. This study was performed […]
