Infectious Conversations: Getting a Grip on How to #SquashSuperbugs

Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease
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As we continue to encourage urgency and action on the problem of antimicrobial resistance, the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID) is convening discussions among health care professionals, policy experts and others to help underscore the threat AMR poses as “the next pandemic,” the need to address it now, and how we can build on lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and other experiences.

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  1. 7月7日

    Episode 8: Addressing Vaccine Misinformation with Dr. Michael Miller

    In this episode of Infectious Conversations, Dr. Michael Miller discusses the growing challenge of vaccine misinformation and its impact on public health. Drawing from his book "Reversing Misinformation: How to Help Your Family, Friends & Community," Dr. Miller shares insights into why people believe misinformation and provides practical strategies for having constructive conversations with folks who have been misinformed. Dr. Miller and our host, Candace DeMatteis, discuss the potential public health risks of declining vaccination rates, particularly for diseases like measles as well as potential future pandemics. Tune in for valuable guidance on how to effectively engage with friends, family, and anyone in your community who may be skeptical about vaccines.

    42 分钟

  2. 2024/10/17

    Episode 7: Dr. Eli Cahan on "the Climate Change of Medicine"

    Welcome back to Infectious Conversations – a podcast from the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease. In our latest episode, PFID's Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, Candace DeMatteis, sits down with Dr. Eli Cahan. Dr. Cahan is a pediatrician, an academic researcher, and an award-winning investigative journalist. Candace and Dr. Cahan discussed his recent feature in Rolling Stone titled, "Could a Conflict-Borne Superbug Bring on Our Next Pandemic?" and the argument that AMR is "the climate change of medicine," with drug-resistant bacterial infections on track to claim more than 39 million lives over the next 25 years, per a recent study published in The Lancet.

    37 分钟

  3. 2022/10/03

    Episode 6: How Dr. Strathdee Helped Save Her Husband’s Life

    In the newest episode of Infectious Conversations, Candace chats with Dr. Steffanie Strathdee: an infectious disease epidemiologist, the Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and Co-director at the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH). Dr. Strathdee relied on her extensive knowledge of infectious diseases to help save her husband’s life using phage therapy after he developed a life-threatening, drug-resistant infection in 2016. The couple later wrote a book together titled “The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug,” which was published in 2019. To contact IPATH, email ipath@ucsd.edu.

    35 分钟

  4. 2022/07/11

    Episode 4: Sepsis Alliance

    In this installment of Infectious Conversations, we sit down with Dr. Sandy Cayo and Tom Heymann of Sepsis Alliance. Sepsis is a serious and often fatal condition that is closely related to antimicrobial resistance, and our esteemed guests on the podcast tell us more about the ties between sepsis and health equity issues, as well as what can be done to help prevent and effectively treat sepsis in the future. For more information, visit sepsis.org and to learn about Sepsis Alliance's pledge for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, go to healthequitypledge.org.

    33 分钟

  5. 2022/07/05

    Episode 3: Peggy Lillis Foundation

    In this episode, Candace DeMatteis interviews Christian Lillis, cofounder of the Peggy Lillis Foundation. Christian and his brother Liam started the foundation to advocate for greater awareness of Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, a deadly superbug that claimed the life of their mother, Peggy. By educating the public, empowering advocates, and shaping policy, the Peggy Lillis Foundation aims to help create a world in which C. diff is rare, treatable, and survivable. Tune in to hear Peggy's story and learn more about what we can do to address the ongoing threat of antimicrobial resistance. For more information about PLF and their incredible work, visit peggyfoundation.org or find them on Twitter at @peggyfund.

    41 分钟

  6. 2022/03/31

    Episode 2: Healthcare’s Fire Extinguishers

    This episode features two special guests who are important leaders in the fight against AMR. Michael Craig joins us from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he develops and guides CDC's strategic direction to address national goals to combat antibiotic resistance. John Rex is a physician and drug developer with 30+ years of development and policy experience focused on antimicrobial agents. Candace asks the experts about their experiences so far and what more needs to be done to prepare for the threats AMR poses - including a helpful analogy about fires and the trusted tools we use to extinguish them.

    39 分钟

  7. 2022/02/25

    Episode 1: The Global Burden of AMR

    Our first segment features a discussion about the recent report published in The Lancet "Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis" and discussed in depth on Friday, February 4th at The Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Findings Launch. Our host, PFID’s Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, Candace DeMatteis chats with experts Helen Boucher, Mary Dwight, and Kevin Outterson.

    31 分钟
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As we continue to encourage urgency and action on the problem of antimicrobial resistance, the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID) is convening discussions among health care professionals, policy experts and others to help underscore the threat AMR poses as “the next pandemic,” the need to address it now, and how we can build on lessons learned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and other experiences.

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