International Symposium in Boston Targets Drug Resistance

Scientists from around the globe gathered in Boston this month to discuss the enduring problem of diseases like tuberculosis, gonorrhea, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases that have been treated for decades but are becoming increasingly drug-resistant.

The issue of drug resistance was front and center for 120 scientists from around the globe who attended Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) Second Annual Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD) Symposium, organized by Marc Lipsitch, program chair, professor of epidemiology at HSPH, and CCDD director. The CCDD is a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences and is located in HSPH’s Department of Epidemiology.