Push/Pull

Woot, woot! Cures 2.0 introduced; PASTEUR Act is a key feature!

Dear All, Following release back in June of a preview (22 June 2021 newsletter), we now have the official introduction of Cures 2.0 by the bipartisan team of U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI)! Here are the links you need: Cures 2.0 legislation is available here. Section-by-section summary of the bill is available here. There

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Building momentum for delinked incentives: Key upcoming webinars

Dear All, A brief note today as I am traveling (yes, really … first time in almost 18 months) but wanted to share these 3 important upcoming meetings. The theme I expect to hear running through them all is that (i) innovation is possible (the CARB-X Year 5 report is amazing!), (ii) new antibiotics must both

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Sign a letter in support of antifungal R&D … in support of PASTEUR!

Dear All: As you know if you are a regular reader of this newsletter, I think that creation of suitable Pull incentives by passage of the PASTEUR Act in the United States is key to building a vibrant pipeline of products to address the international problem of AMR. I’ve also written recently about the FORWARD Act

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G20 Health Minister’s declaration / Calls for push, pull, avoiding price/volume mechanisms, and support of global partnerships!

Dear All: Adding to the continued forward momentum of calls for support of antibiotic R&D, this week’s meeting of the G20 Health Ministers has led to the attached declaration. After some very sound recitations of the importance of health communities and the importance of good infrastructure, we also have calls for R&D preparedness (Para 15), workforce building (Para 22),

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Ardal et al. / Pull incentives for antibiotics – TATFAR analysis of 6 models

Dear All: ​The TATFAR group has a new and very helpful paper out in Clinical Infectious Diseases in which they analyze 6 different kinds of pull incentives: Higher reimbursement Diagnosis confirmation (lower cost for a few days of empiric therapy, higher cost if diagnostics confirm ongoing need) A fully delinked market entry reward (no sales-based income) A

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Push! Pull! Push! Pull! / Highlights from Davos 2018

Dear All: Three important documents were released at / during / around the World Economic Forum meeting that occurred this week in Davos. First and foremost, we have the final report from DRIVE-AB. It’s a substantial document and you’ll need to set aside an afternoon to read it. As a way to get started, my 11 Sep 2017

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