Organized by the Center for Disease Dynamics Economics and Policy (CDDEP) and The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and co-sponsored by the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC), the 1st Global Forum on Bacterial Infections: Balancing Treatment Access and Antibiotic Resistance will focus on aspects of antibiotic access and resistance with particular relevance to low- and middle-income countries.
The disease burden of childhood pneumonia and policies to encourage antibiotic stewardship are just two of the topics that attendees will explore. The meeting will bring together policymakers, clinicians, public health programme managers and research experts from a variety of disciplines and sectors to introduce and evaluate policy innovations designed to work in low-resource countries.
Come and learn about the problems and be part of the solution!
Where: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
When: 3–5 October 2011