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Laxminarayan is founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics &
Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C. and New Delhi. He is a senior research scholar at
Princeton University, an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and a visiting
professor at both the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and the University of Kwazulu
Natal in South Africa. Laxminarayan chairs the board of GARDP, a global product
development partnership created by the World Health Organization, which aims to develop
and deliver new treatments for bacterial infections. He is the founder and board chair at
HealthCubed, which works to improve access to healthcare and diagnostics worldwide.
Since 1995, Laxminarayan has worked to improve the understanding of antibiotic resistance
as a problem of managing a shared global resource. Through his prolific research, active
public outreach (including a TED talk that has been viewed over a million times), and
sustained policy engagement, he has played a central role in bringing the issue of drug
resistance to the attention of leaders and policymakers worldwide and to the United Nations
General Assembly in September 2016.
In 2003-04, he served on the National Academy of Science/Institute of Medicine Committee
on the Economics of Antimalarial Drugs and subsequently helped create the Affordable
Medicines Facility for malaria, which reduced the cost of antimalarials worldwide. In 2012,
Laxminarayan created the Immunization Technical Support Unit, which supports the Indian
Government’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare immunization program, and is
credited with helping introduce four new vaccines and extending vaccination coverage to 3
million infants. During the Obama Administration, Laxminarayan served on the U.S.
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology’s antimicrobial resistance
working group. He was recently appointed to a second term as a voting member of the U.S.
Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance.
Laxminarayan is a series editor of the Disease Control Priorities for Developing Countries,
3rd edition. His work has been widely covered in major media outlets (including the New
York Times, Washington Post and BBC). His research includes over 250 books, book
chapters, and peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including
the Lancet, Science, and Nature.