All Policy articles
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NewsSHEA affirms trust in ACIP and supports science-based vaccine policy
Public health experts have commented on the removal by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the use of vaccines in the US.
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FeaturesClimate, conflict, and antimicrobial resistance: unravelling the threat to global health
Emerging evidence is revealing the interplay between AMR and climate change. How are they linked, and how can we address the challenge?
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NewsThe Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ‘should step up efforts’
The international community must protect global responses to HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria to serve humanity’s collective interests, according to a new opinion article.
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NewsDisease experts call for reinstatement of CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America has called for the reinstatement of CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), warning that decades of progress in preventing healthcare-associated infections are under threat.
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NewsNational-level actions effective at tackling antibiotic resistance
National-level policies can reduce the impact of antibiotic resistance across diverse countries, according to a new study. The comparison of countries found that national action was consistently associated with improved indicators of antibiotic resistance.
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NewsMicrobiologists must seize the day - and make their mark on policy
Microbiologists need to seize opportunities to engage with policymaking in order to move towards better, more scientifically informed policy that serves the common good, a new paper published in Sustainable Microbiology urges.
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NewsSecurity-relevant research in times of geopolitical polarisation: report
A new report on security-relevant research - including research into pathogens - notes a change within the scientific system due to increased national security interests.
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NewsProfessor Sabiha Essack wins Christiana Figueres Policy to Practice Award
Professor Sabiha Essack, the South African Research Chair in Antibiotic Resistance and One Health, Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, has been awarded the Christiana Figueres Policy to Practice Award.
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NewsThe Institut Pasteur joins the Stand Up for Science community
Echoing the Stand Up for Science Day initiated in the United States, scientists and academics in France are calling for mobilization actions in every city.
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NewsHarnessing AI to respond to the global threat of antimicrobial resistance
An international team of researchers has created an AI tool to bridge critical gaps in knowledge needed for informal policy development in AMR and to assist in the preparation of National Action Plans.
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NewsIn a warming world, public needs to know more about protections from mosquito-borne illnesses
Very few (15%) among the American public worry that they or their families will contract dengue or West Nile virus over the new three months, according to the latest Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) health knowledge survey.
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NewsPolicy change may be helping to drive rise in treatment-resistant vaginal thrush
A change in policy may be helping to drive a rise in treatment-resistant vaginal thrush, amid significant yearly increases in the prevalence of fungal infections caused by fungal Candida species, suggests the first study of its kind.
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NewsFleming Initiative raises first £100m in the global fight against AMR
Three new partners have pledged additional funding and resources to the Fleming Initiative’s global effort to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as leading medical expert Professor Lord Ara Darzi calls for tighter restrictions on the use of antibiotics.
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NewsH5 influenza vaccines: what needs to be done to reduce the risk of a pandemic
As the global threat of H5N1 influenza looms, three international vaccine and public health experts say it is time to fully resource and support a robust strategy to address this and future potential pandemic influenza threats.
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NewsWHO convenes Emergency Committee to tackle mpox surge in Congo and neighbours
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the convening of an Emergency Committee under International Health Regulations to advise on whether the Africa outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.
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NewsComprehensive meta-analysis pinpoints what vaccination strategies different countries should adopt
A new paper offers the first comprehensive meta-analysis examining what types of vaccine intervention strategies have the greatest effect, and whether different intervention strategies work better in different countries.
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NewsWillingness to pay for nationwide wastewater surveillance in Japan
A contingent valuation study in Japan estimates willingness to pay for a wastewater surveillance system for infectious diseases.
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NewsUN publishes negotiation proposals for sharing benefits from plant, animal, microbial DNA sequences
New UN documents provide proposals and options to meet a global pledge to share fairly some of the multi-trillion-dollar revenues and other benefits derived from products related to the use of “digital sequence information on genetic resources (DSI)”.
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NewsAMI experts issue warning over UK’s Sustainable Farming Initiative
Applied Microbiology International has urged the UK government to take microbiological considerations into account when creating initiatives like the Sustainable Farming Incentive - warning that the potential benefits arising from such schemes will be limited otherwise.
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News£1.5m donation drives UK-Japan collaboration in antimicrobial research
A £1.5 million donation will drive joint research into antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by scientists in the UK and Japan.