S1E5 Post-antibiotic future with Dr. Hanan Balkhy of WHO

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Imagined Tomorrow

Shreya Dasgupta

18 episodes

6 days ago

Imagined Tomorrow explores weird, fun, scary future scenarios for India. Futures that might become a reality when science and tech try to solve problems within India's unique contexts. Wondering what if an asteroid was headed towards India? Can we pick a climate-safe home? What if we had AI judges in our courts? Join us, as we dig into these thought experiments, with a little bit of speculation and a whole lot of science – all imagined from an Indian point of view. Imagined Tomorrow is an independently created, non-commercial, speculative-journalism podcast.

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S1E5 Post-antibiotic future with Dr. Hanan Balkhy of WHO

Imagined Tomorrow

13 minutes 48 seconds

4 years ago

S1E5 Post-antibiotic future with Dr. Hanan Balkhy of WHO

Show notes:

**This is a deep dive bonus content for episode 4. This episode gets very geeky, so if you haven’t already, please listen to episode 4 before moving ahead with this one :)**

Antibiotic resistance is a problem of many countries and many bugs. So we hear from someone who has a bird’s eye view of this issue. Dr. Hanan Balkhy of the World Health Organisation.

Imagined Tomorrow is created and hosted by Shreya Dasgupta. The episode was co-edited by Abhishek Madan. Intro and outro music is by Abhijit Shylanath. Get in touch via Twitter, or email imagined.tomorrow@gmail.com.

Guests:

Subject experts

Dr. Hanan Balkhy, a professor of pediatric infection diseases and Assistant Director-General for Antimicrobial Resistance at the World Health Organization

Episode music

Interlude music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi on Pixabay.

Episode artwork

Imagined Tomorrow logo by Abhishek Madan.

For further reading:

Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (Available on Amazon)

Scoping Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in India. Read here.

Science journalist Priyanka Pulla has written some excellent stories on antimicrobial resistance:

· The superbugs of Hyderabad. Read here.

· Living in a world of emerging microbial resistance. Read here.

· India’s Hospitals Have an Infection Problem. Could Accreditation Be the Way to Go? Read here.

· The growing peril of drug-resistant superbugs. Read here.

· Explainer: Why Is Multi-Drug Resistance a Problem? Read here.

· How India got blindsided by a deadly mucormycosis outbreak. Read here.

WHO’s Aware tool

WHO’s priority bacteria list.