ADDRESSING ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

The mission of the Aspen Health Strategy Group is to promote improvements in policy and practice by providing leadership on important and complex health issues. The group is comprised of 23 senior leaders across influential sectors including health, business, media, and technology, and is part of the Health, Medicine and Society Program at the Aspen Institute. Co-chaired by Kathleen Sebelius and Tommy G. Thompson, both former governors and former US Secretaries of Health and Human 
Services, the Aspen Health Strategy Group tackles one health issue annually through a year-long, in-depth study.

This book is a collection of papers on the group’s fourth subject: antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The papers provide an overview of AMR and address topics related to human demand, animal- and environmental-health factors, and drug pipeline challenges, and includes a final consensus report based on the group’s work.