Infectious Disease
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 2, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction Health professional educators around the world have demonstrated their ability to respond creatively to challenges posed by the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> ABSTRACT | The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Since 1995, the global community has experienced six outbreaks that the World Health Organization (WHO), as authorized in a 2005 revision of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 13, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Health care workers face serious risks to their own health and safety during both routine and emergency work. Airborne transmissible...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 25, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives
Despite efforts to increase rates of immunization among Medicare patients, especially racial and ethnic minorities, these rates remain well below Healthy People 2020 targets [1]. It is not difficult to conclude that we need to learn more about how and why...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Antimicrobial Usage and Interventions: A Brief History from 1950 to the Present Antimicrobials for veterinary purposes came on the market in the 1950s, followed shortly by antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), because of their growth-enhancing effects to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The antibiotic resistance problem is caused by the evolution and transfer of genes that confer resistance to medically important antibiotics into human pathogens. The acquisition of such resistance genes by pathogens complicates disease treatment, increases...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 17, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Typically, the authorities and experts on public health practices are public health officials. The public expects these officials to offer important health information and guidelines to prevent disease and promote good health strategies. In times...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which commissioned expert papers on 19 priority focus areas for U.S. health policy by...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 22, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction It has been 40 years since Levy and colleagues published their landmark study demonstrating a direct link between antibiotic use on farms and the spread of antibiotic resistance to human populations (Levy et al., 1976). That study prospectively...
