Ramanan Laxminarayan

Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan Ph.D., M.P.H is an Indian economist and an epidemiologist. He is founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C. and senior research scholar at Princeton University, an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. His research on epidemiological models of infectious diseases and economic analysis of drug resistance on public health gets attention from leaders and policymakers worldwide.[1] He served on the President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s antimicrobial resistance working group. He is also a voting member of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance.[2] He is a chairperson of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), a not-for-profit organization created by the World Health Organization along with Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi).[3][4]

References
  1. "What India Needs to Fight the Virus". The New York Times. March 27, 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  2. "Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria". Assistant Secretary for Health Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  3. Maxmen, Amy (July 7, 2017). "Untreatable Gonorrhea on the Rise Worldwide". Nature magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  4. "C V OF RAMANAN LAXMINARAYAN" (PDF). https://cddep.org/. Retrieved 27 April 2020. External link in |website= (help)


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