S1E5 Post-antibiotic future with Dr. Hanan Balkhy of WHO

Show notes: **This is a deep dive bonus content for episode 4. This episode gets very geeky, so if you haven’t already, please listen to episode 4 before moving ahead with this one :)** Antibiotic resistance is a problem of many countries and many bugs. So we hear from someone who has a bird’s eye view of this issue. Dr. Hanan Balkhy of the World Health Organisation. Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. The episode was co-edited by Abhishek Madan. Intro and outro music is by Abhijit Shylanath. Get in touch via Twitter, or email [email protected]. Guests: Subject experts Dr. Hanan Balkhy, a professor of pediatric infection diseases and Assistant Director-General for Antimicrobial Resistance at the World Health Organization Episode music Interlude music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi on Pixabay. Episode artwork Imagined Tomorrow logo by Abhishek Madan. For further reading: Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Available on Amazon) Scoping Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in India. Read here. Science journalist Priyanka Pulla has written some excellent stories on antimicrobial resistance: · The superbugs of Hyderabad. Read here. · Living in a world of emerging microbial resistance. Read here. · India’s Hospitals Have an Infection Problem. Could Accreditation Be the Way to Go? Read here. · The growing peril of drug-resistant superbugs. Read here. · Explainer: Why Is Multi-Drug Resistance a Problem? Read here. · How India got blindsided by a deadly mucormycosis outbreak. Read here. WHO’s Aware tool WHO’s priority bacteria list.