Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan: Drug Resistant Economist Warns Against Antibiotic Resistance
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Have you ever heard of a drug resistant economist? Have you ever thought how economics would intersect with antibiotics? Well, I didn't either until I read an article that Dr.Ramanan Laxminarayan had coauthored. What I read has led me to rethink about the world's drug resistant problems on a much broader scale, including how antibiotics are used in animal agriculture to promote growth. (one more reason to eat plants!) This discussion will challenge how you think about antibiotics and hopefully think twice before insisting on antibiotics at your next doctor's visit when he/she says it is a virus...
Dr. Laxminarayan directs the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. He is also a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University. His research deals with the integration of epidemiological models of infectious diseases and drug resistance into the economic analysis of public health problems. He has worked to improve understanding of drug resistance as a problem of managing a shared global resource.
Laxminarayan has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on evaluating malaria treatment policy, vaccination strategies, the economic burden of tuberculosis, and control of non-communicable diseases. He has served on a number of advisory committees at WHO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute of Medicine.
This is one of those fascinating conversations I wish could have went longer. This subject affects ALL of us on earth...please share this important message and I hope you learn as much as I did!
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Have you ever heard of a drug resistant economist? Have you ever thought how economics would intersect with antibiotics? Well, I didn't either until I read an article that Dr.Ramanan Laxminarayan had coauthored. What I read has led me to rethink about the world's drug resistant problems on a much broader scale, including how antibiotics are used in animal agriculture to promote growth. (one more reason to eat plants!) This discussion will challenge how you think about antibiotics and hopefully think twice before insisting on antibiotics at your next doctor's visit when he/she says it is a virus...
Dr. Laxminarayan directs the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy. He is also a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University. His research deals with the integration of epidemiological models of infectious diseases and drug resistance into the economic analysis of public health problems. He has worked to improve understanding of drug resistance as a problem of managing a shared global resource.
Laxminarayan has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on evaluating malaria treatment policy, vaccination strategies, the economic burden of tuberculosis, and control of non-communicable diseases. He has served on a number of advisory committees at WHO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute of Medicine.
This is one of those fascinating conversations I wish could have went longer. This subject affects ALL of us on earth...please share this important message and I hope you learn as much as I did!
Thank you for listening like always! Please share the podcast!
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