Dear All: It was a HUGE day at the Pew Charitable Trusts today! First, Commissioner Scott Gottleib gave a superb and very exciting speech. You can either read or listen to the entire speech. There is also a panel discussion after his talk that is worth replaying. Here are some highlights from Commissioner Gottleib’s talk: FDA is working to coordinate
Dear All, Today we have several useful papers to share. First, OHE (Office of Health Economics, London) have posted a 4-part blog series that provides a succinct summary of the broken economics of antibiotics. The titles are good guides to content: Part 1: Why NICE and NHS England are Testing an Innovative HTA and Payment
Dear All: I’ve written a lot about the need for pull incentives, preferably delinked (some papers to read, comments by TATFAR, highlights from Davos 2018, and the UK commits to trying delinkage). Now, I am delighted to report that a really serious effort is underway in the US to make something happen during the 116th Congress. The essential document can be
Aside: Please look closely at the forward calendar. In addition to two new webinars from GARDP’s REVIVE project, there is a meeting in Thailand in December that focuses on alternatives to antibiotics. I’m told that the program is primarily focused on veterinary and agricultural uses, but previous year’s attendees have found the discussion to have broad application
Dear All: You are doubtless now familiar with all the reasons why we need pull incentives for AMR-related products (as background, see this blog). We don’t yet have anything beyond the US GAIN act and it alone will not suffice. In the US, there are discussions this week in the House of Representatives on reauthorizing PAHPA, the
Note that there is a follow-up newsletter that covers a post-webinar FAQ. After reading this newsletter as introduction, please go here for the follow-up newsletter. Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin Outterson for co-authoring this newsletter), Prior newsletters have covered the antibiotic evaluation procurement pilot being run by NICE and NHS England (go here for the
Dear All, On 6 Jan 2022, we had the announcement of the creation of in France of the ARPEGE consortium (AppRoche théraPeutique Economique & diaGnostique de l’antibiorésistancE) or “Economic, diagnostic and therapeutic approach to antibiotic resistance.” Somebody definitely had fun with that acronym! Here’s what you need to know: The French government is providing €9m of
Dear All, There are days when it is hard to keep up! Not only did we have the release today of two amazing sets of RFPs from NIAID and BARDA (Vaccines! Therapeutics! Diagnostics! Bacteria! Fungi! Viruses! See this newsletter!) but we also have the impressive GRAM (Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance) report by Murray et
Dear All: We can’t say it too often … our current approach to buying antibiotics is broken in that it is tantamount to paying the firemen on a per-fire basis. We simply must change this! Driving this change requires persistent effort on the part of many. Over the past few days we’ve had two welcome additions to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-xt3FrAGU&ab_channel=AMR.SolutionswithDr.JohnRex Dear All, VERY exciting news on the Pull incentive front: The G7 Finance Ministers have released a statement on Actions to Support Antibiotic Development, aiming to strengthen G7 preparedness against the “silent pandemic” of antimicrobial resistance. Implicitly, this is a statement that is agreed and endorsed by the political leadership of each country —
