E-DRUG: CGD Launch Event, 6.15.10: The Race Against Drug Resistance
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Dear Colleagues based in or travelling to Washington DC around 15 June
- please join us for this event!
Center for Global Development hosts the launch event of
The Race Against Drug Resistance
A report of the Center for Global Development's Drug Resistance Working Group
Opening remarks by
Representative Jim Matheson (D-Utah)
Member, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health
Featuring
Rachel Nugent
Chair, Drug Resistance Working Group
Deputy Director, Global Health, Center for Global Development
With a film screening of The Race Against Drug Resistance
by Back to Earth Films
Panelists include:
David Heymann, Former Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization;
Head and Senior Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House
John MacArthur, Team Lead, President's Malaria Initiative, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Gail Cassell, Vice President, Scientific Affairs, and Distinguished Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company
Renee Ridzon, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Moderated by
Martha Mendoza
The Associated Press
Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
9:00am--10:45am
Continental breakfast served at 8:45am
at
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20045
13th Floor (The Conference Rooms)
To RSVP visit http://www.cgdev.org/content/calendar/detail/1424172/
The world is rapidly losing the ability to fight disease because of an invisible adversary: drug resistance. Resistance is inevitable but human actions are hastening it. Without a global effort to ensure lasting effectiveness of treatment, drug resistance is poised to get worse fast, raising costs, claiming more lives, and making future generations vulnerable to diseases that are easily cured today. After two years of study and analysis, CGD's expert Drug Resistance Working Group urges four crucial steps to combat the problem in a pivotal new report, The Race Against Drug Resistance.
Alix Beith
Centre for Global Development
<alixbeith@yahoo.com>