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Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, directs the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP).  He is also a visiting scholar and lecturer at Princeton University. His research deals with the integration ofepidemiological models of infectious diseases and drug resistance into the economic analysis of public health problems. He has worked to improve the understanding of drug resistance as a problem of managing a shared global resource.

Dr. Laxminarayan has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank on evaluating malaria treatment policy, vaccination strategies, the economic burden of tuberculosis, and control of non-communicable diseases. He has served on a number of advisory committees at the WHO, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Institute of Medicine. In 2003-04, he served on the National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine Committee on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs and subsequently helped create the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria, a novel financing mechanism for antimalarials.   His major projects at CDDEP include Extending the Cure, a research and consultative effort that develops and evaluates policy solutions to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. His work has been covered in major media outlets including Associated Press, BBC, CNN, the Economist, LA Times, NBC, NPR, Reuters, Science, Wall Street Journal, and National Journal.

Article Posts

• Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria convene for inaugural meeting
• Preserving Antibiotic Effectiveness: Everybody’s Responsibility
• We need to get smarter about antibiotics
• Antibiotic use in the United States: where do we stand?
• ResistanceMap: Visualizing the Progression of Antibiotic Resistance