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Pull mechanisms: Private capital can multiply Subscription (Netflix) and TEV models!

Dear All: Three recent papers bring together an instructive perspective on Pull incentives for the #FireExtinguishersOfMedicine. The first two papers survey the available tools and conclude that subscription models (e.g. “Netflix”) and transferable exclusivity vouchers (TEVs) are the key paths forward. The 3rd paper is new (and big) news: it shows that the existence of

26 March 2022 No Comments

AMR Action Fund: A $1b down payment from Industry; A call for creation of strong Pull incentives

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion” (Paulo Coelho) Dear All, The AMR Action Fund (https://www.amractionfund.com/) announcement today was awesome … indeed, it brought tears to my eyes. I listened in parallel to the presentations from Berlin and Washington where we had an all-star cast of US Senators, EU Members of

9 July 2020 No Comments

ESCMID’s UNGA 2024 Petition to EU Health Ministers: Sign and Send!

Dear All, During the GLG AMR (Global Leaders Group for AMR) event just before ECCMID (see the 3 May 2024 newsletter entitled “Path To UNGA 2024 As Of 3 May 24 / Events On 14-15 May (DC, NYC)” for details), ESCMID leadership announced that ESCMID had developed a petition to be sent by and from the

8 May 2024 No Comments

Path to UNGA 2024 as of 3 May 24 / Events on 14-15 May (DC, NYC)

Dear All, Well, ECCMID 2024 (Barcelona) has come and gone. I saw many of you there … but it’s always so busy … and the conference center was simply enormous! Could not keep up. But, it was great to get the sense that we’re back as a community … very good attendance. The one thing

3 May 2024 No Comments

GLG-AMR: AMR will lower global life expectancy by 1.8y. The fix pays for itself.

Dear All (moderately wonkish, so settle in for the ride — and the reason for the title of this newsletter will become obvious!), The GLG AMR (Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance) released a report on 3 April 2024 providing recommendations for consideration by UN Member States in the outcome document of the High-Level Meeting (HLM) on

19 April 2024 No Comments

Ready, set, go! AMR appropriations in the US FY2025 budget

Dear All, If you follow US politics, you will know that the USG (US Government) is beginning its appropriations process for FY2025 (Federal Year 2025). In preparation, a letter calling for AMR-related funding has been drafted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), AdvaMedDx, American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Association for Professionals in Infection Control

14 March 2024 No Comments

Tragedy of the (Antibiotic) Commons: A true market failure

Dear All, In a 28 Feb 2024 newsletter entitled “How Economists (And Finance Ministers) Think…”, we reviewed an important new paper on the economics of antibiotics from Anthony McDonnell and his colleagues at CGD (Center for Global Development). The paper’s core theme was that the antibiotic market represents a set of market failures which collectively converge

19 March 2024 No Comments

Call for Pull: Swiss Roundtable on Antibiotics

Dear All, To end the week, we have a really lovely paper from the Swiss Roundtable on Antibiotics (a multidisciplinary, non-profit Swiss association). Here are the links you need: The new (25 March 2024) paper entitled “Effective antibiotics for the Swiss health care system: today and in the future.” A prior (7 Feb 2023) paper

5 April 2024 No Comments

Novo Nordisk Foundation joins CARB-X!

Dear All (and with thanks to Damiano, Peter and Aleks for co-authoring), Some great news to start off 2024 on the right foot: the Novo Nordisk Foundation has announced that it will fund CARB-X with a three-year grant of USD 25 million! The Novo Nordisk Foundation joins four governments (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States)

19 January 2024 No Comments

PACE: A new £30m fund for AMR innovation

Dear All, Exciting additional news merits two newsletters in one day! I’ll keep it brief and quote directly from the website: “Innovate UK, LifeArc, and Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) have joined forces to create PACE (Pathways to Antimicrobial Clinical Efficacy), a £30 million initiative supporting early-stage innovation against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to save lives. PACE has today (19 October 2023) announced

20 October 2023 No Comments

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