How does antibiotic regulation affect public health?

This project includes a mapping study analyzing the state of the law and the application of the law surrounding antimicrobial resistance; and a mechanism study to assess the empirical effect of current regulation on antibiotic resistance, including calculation of the effective patent life of antibiotics and empirically testing the patent holder waste hypothesis. Deliverables for this project include a proposed set of policy recommendations related to the two main approaches to reducing antimicrobial resistance; innovation and conservation. Dissemination will be via policy briefs and publications in journals such as Health Affairs, Clinical Infections Diseases, Lancet Infectious Diseases and New England Journal of Medicine.