Dear All, WHO have released for consultation an updated draft of their EML (Essential Medicines List) Antibiotic handbook. For those not familiar with it, WHO’s EML (now in its 22nd edition!) provides a guide to a core set of medicines that every country should have. The antibiotic-focused version does this for antibiotics and then adds
Dear All, The US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR) is looking for comments on the 2023-2026 National Health Security Strategy (NHSS). They would like input from stakeholders in public health, healthcare, emergency management, national security, non-governmental organizations, academia, and private industry. Their specific questions to consider are: What are the most critical national health
Dear All, I was fascinated to see Mayo Clinic’s Global Bridges Healthcare Alliance release an RFP on 21 Oct entitled “Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Programs to Address Health Inequities arising from Socioeconomic Disparities in USA, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.” The RFP is supported by a grant from Pfizer and seeks to “… solicit programs that have
Dear All, We have today an excellent report from the Global AMR R&D Hub entitled “Estimating Global Patient Needs and Market Potential for Priority Health Technologies Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance.” Both the bottom line and the key message of the report are clearly stated in the Preface: “… we hope that by showing the astonishing mismatch
Dear All, Building on the success of the 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016 and springboarding from a concept paper published in Science, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, and Fred Upton, R-Michigan, have today introduced the 21st Century Cures Act v2.0! Here are the links you need: Discussion draft of the Cures 2.0 bill Cures 2.0
Dear All, On the theme of global health security, today’s note covers 3 exciting, overlapping items. Here we go… First, the G7 leaders have agreed to sign the Carbis Bay Declaration covering global health, economic stability, climate and more. Specifically related to health in a section entitled “End the pandemic and prepare for the future”, we have
Dear All (and note the related 29 Apr 2021 newsletter), As was discussed at length in the recent Wellcome Trust-sponsored analysis of the AMR-related needs for the coming decades (see this newsletter), it is critical that we build and maintain momentum around AMR-focused work. As a big part of that revolves around being visible in
Note: Newsletter now updated to include the communique from the G7 Finance Ministers! Dear All, The G7 met in Oxford this past week and we now have communiques released from by both the Health and Finance Ministers. Let’s look first at the two fascinating statements from the Health Ministers: A general communique that includes multiple
Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin Outterson for co-authoring this newsletter), Woot, woot! Woot, woot! US Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Representatives Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) have today reintroduced the PASTEUR (Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Up surging Resistance) Act! Here are the links you need: The text of
Dear All, I have recently become aware of MTEC (Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization designed to accelerate the translation of medical technologies into solutions that prevent and treat injuries and restore the health of United States military personnel. MTEC is a public-private collaboration between the U.S. federal government and the businesses and