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.

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<a href="https://twitter.com/abhishekmadan"> Abhishek Madan</a>. Intro and outro music is by<a href="https://twitter.com/htedum?lang=en"> Abhijit Shylanath</a>. Get in touch via<a href="https://twitter.com/ShreyaDasgupta"> Twitter</a>, 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 <a href="https://www.amazon.in/Superbug-Fatal-Menace-Maryn-McKenna/dp/1416557288">Amazon</a>)
Scoping Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in India. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321421339_Scoping_Report_on_Antimicrobial_Resistance_in_India">Read here</a>.
Science journalist Priyanka Pulla has written some excellent stories on antimicrobial resistance:
· The superbugs of Hyderabad. <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-superbugs-of-hyderabad/article20536685.ece">Read here</a>.
· Living in a world of emerging microbial resistance. <a href="https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/%E2%80%A2%09https:/www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/living-in-a-world-of-emerging-microbial-resistance/article21339943.ece">Read here</a>.
· India’s Hospitals Have an Infection Problem. Could Accreditation Be the Way to Go? <a href="https://science.thewire.in/health/healthcare-acquired-infections-multi-drug-resistance-nabh-accreditation/">Read here</a>.
· The growing peril of drug-resistant superbugs. <a href="https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/%E2%80%A2%09https:/www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/the-growing-peril-of-drug-resistant-superbugs/story-RUGLv3Jv31Ha17reByBARL.html">Read here</a>.
· Explainer: Why Is Multi-Drug Resistance a Problem? <a href="https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/%E2%80%A2%09https:/science.thewire.in/health/explainer-multidrug-resistance-colistin-carbapenems-amr">Read here</a>.
· How India got blindsided by a deadly mucormycosis outbreak. <a href="https://www.livemint.com/science/health/blindsided-by-a-deadly-fungus-11626719755005.html">Read here</a>.
WHO’s <a href="https://aware.essentialmeds.org/groups">Aware tool</a>
WHO’s <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/27-02-2017-who-publishes-list-of-bacteria-for-which-new-antibiotics-are-urgently-needed">priority bacteria list</a>.

Imagined Tomorrow is a long form podcast that imagines futures for India and this part of the world through the lens of science and technology. Each episode explores a hypothetical future for India, and with the help of different voices and experts, tries to figure out what the journey to that future might look like given Indian realities in mind. Perhaps, the future could become a reality ten or twenty years from now. Maybe it’s a future only a few can reach. Or perhaps, it’s a future we shouldn’t even try to get to.

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