Going Viral

Let’s analyze the impact of engineering on public health and its advancements. We will discuss how engineering has contributed to the field of public health by helping researchers perform laboratory and field studies, overseeing research and development for solutions-based products, conducting disaster relief and emergency response, and engaging in public health program management.

Interview with Grace Phelan, who is a certified nutrition support clinician working as a Nutrition Support Coordinator and Critical Care Nutritionist at Tufts Medical Center. We discuss critical care nutrition, national nutrition trends, patient nutrition care, and the future of nutritional policy.

Interview with Dr. Muhammad Zaman, who is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. We discuss his journey to engineering and how he found his purpose in bringing engineering solutions to underserved populations as well as the various ways global health can be improved through thoughtful and nuanced engineering and public health solutions.

Let's learn about nutritional science and epidemiology, its history and evolution, and how public health policies can help!

What is antimicrobial resistance and how is it impacting us and our health?

For more information checkout: Discovery and preclinical development of new antibiotics (PMID: 24646092), Five barriers to addressing antimicrobial resistance (Author: Rohan Kocharekar), CDC: Antibiotic Rsistance Threats in the United States 2019, National Strategy for Combating Antibioticresistant Bacteria (Obama Administration), National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria 2020-2025 (ASPE), United States National Actiona Plan (CDC), Enhancing US-Japan Cooperation to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance (PMID: 25470465), A View on 20 Years of Antimicrobial Resistance in Japan by Two National Surveillance Systems: The National Epidemiological Surveillance of Infectious Diseases and Japan Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (PMID: 34680770), Estimating the Economic and Clinical Value of Reducing Antimicrobial Resistance to Three Gram-negative Pathogens in Japan (PMID: 34703834), Strategy on Antiobiotic Resistance Switzerland (StAR), Epidemiological aspects of non-human antibiotic usage and resistance: implications for the control of antibiotic resistance in Ghana (PMID: 22413809), Occurrence of Antibiotics and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Landfill Sites in Kumasi, Ghana (Article ID: 6934507), Determinants of Inappropriate Antibiotics Use in Rural Central Ghana Using a Mixed Methods Approach (PMID: 32266200), Resistance to antimicrobial drugs in Ghana (PMID: 22259250), Scoping Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in India, India's National Action Plan for antimicrobial resistance – An overview of the context, status, and way ahead (PMID: 31334140), Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: The Indian scenario (PMID: 31219076).