As the world continues to evolve toward advances in technology, the sciences, and globalization, it's important to reflect on the real-world gains of such progressions as well as the future opportunities that exist. In the case of this episode, the gains are associated with saving lives and combating the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic resistant infections, which have been deemed by The World Health Organization as one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity.
This episode is Part 2 of a series that focuses on AMR and the innovations in science and technology that are helping to tackle the challenge. The episode also points toward the connection between the issues of climate change and AMR as well as the opportunities to combine forces and develop collaborative efforts in addressing these threats.
The episode digs deeper into innovations happening within healthcare to defeat superbugs as shared from the perspective of this episode’s guest, Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, who is an Epidemiologist, Distinguished Professor, Global health solution-seeker, TEDx speaker, and Author of The Perfect Predator, a memoir of her effort to save her husband's life and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more. Steffanie also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Phage Applications & Therapeutics at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine as well as the Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences.
Other topics range from the importance of advocacy and collaboration to tackle global health problems to how phages can help to evolve personalized medicine to how technologies like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can be used to advance Phage Therapy. Also, is there a need for more health solutions to connect the dots when traveling abroad?
For more details visit TechLink Health @ https://www.techlink.health or connect with Dr. Strathdee @ The Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics.
This episode was hosted by Rob McBride, Co-Founder and CEO of Felix Biotechnology and Dr. Sarah Samaan.
The episode is packed with valuable insights and points to several references, including a direct email for those in need and interested in Phage Therapies as an alternative treatment:
📩 Email @ Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH)
🌎 Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics at UC San Diego School of Medicine
📗 The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug
🎥 How Sewage Saved My Husband's Life from a Superbug | Steffanie Strathdee | TEDxNashville
📚 SEA-PHAGES (Science Education Alliance-Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science) is a two-semester undergraduate research program administered by the University of Pittsburgh's Graham Hatfull's group and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Science Education Division.
🌍 THE LANCET: a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and the world's highest-impact academic journal.
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