Boston Area Antibiotic Resistance Network

• Announcing BAARN 2016

▪ Program
▪ Registration (attendance limited to 170)

• News

▪ Very readable and authoritative news on antibiotic resistance:
▪ President Obama requests increased funding for antibiotic research:
▪ FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Releases National Action Plan to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria:
▪ Antibiotics to be focus of £10m Longitude prize:
▪ Multibillion-Dollar Investment Needed to Fight Drug-Resistant ‘Superbugs’:
▪ WHO Antimicrobial resistance: Global report on surveillance 2014
▪ Consumer Reports article on antibiotic resistant microbes in chicken
▪ News from APUA

• ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PROBLEM- Where can I find authoritative information?

▪ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
▪ World Health Organization (WHO)
▪ National Institute of Health (NIH)
▪ Pew Charitable Trust Antibiotic and Innovation Project
▪ Pew Charitable Trust – Facebook Daily News
▪ PBS Frontline: Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria
▪ Occurrence of multidrug resistant microbes in chicken

• Discussions

Discussions for the BAARN site are hosted externally on the BAARN Forum (Click Here).
For more information on joining the discussion, please refer to these helpful pages,” How do I join the discussion? (Click Here)“.