Connected virtually, working globally: PEI engaged more than 100 undergraduates in virtual environmental internships for summer 2020
September 9, 2020 ・ Morgan KellyPrinceton senior Ben Alessio had planned to spend his summer internship with the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) in the laboratory of Professor Howard Stone conducting experiments related to diffusiophoresis, an important process by which particles are transported through water. But…
Antibiotic resistance in food animals nearly tripled since 2000
October 9, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyThe growing appetite for animal protein in developing countries has resulted in a smorgasbord of antibiotic consumption for livestock that has nearly tripled the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in disease-causing bacteria easily transmitted from animals to humans, according to a…
Government subsidies could be key to containing hospital-born infections
April 3, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyHealth care-associated infections — illnesses that people contract while being treated in a hospital or other health care facility — sicken millions of people each year and cost billions of dollars in additional treatment. While there has been some improvement…
As antibiotics fail, global consumption of antibiotics skyrockets, further driving drug resistance
March 26, 2018Despite the threat of a global health crisis in antibiotic resistance, worldwide use of antibiotics soared 39 percent between 2000 and 2015.
300 Million Children Breathe Highly Toxic Air, Unicef Reports
October 31, 2016 ・ Igor HeifetzRamanan Laxminarayan quoted in the New York Times discussing the impact of air pollution on children in India and China.
United Nations to Address Antimicrobial Resistance
August 31, 2016 ・ Melissa Policicchio for the Princeton Environmental InstitutePEI interviews PEI senior research scholar Ramanan Laxminarayan about antimicrobial resistance.
UN High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobials—What Do We Need?
July 18, 2016 ・ Ramanan LaxminarayanLaxminarayan comments that sustainable access to effective antimicrobials is a prerequisite for achieving several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Tackling Antibiotic Resistance: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
July 15, 2015 ・ Holly WellesRamanan Laxminarayan explains why our antibiotics no longer work as well as they used to and discusses what we can do about it.
Global Livestock Antibiotic Use Expected To Increase 67% By 2030
March 20, 2015 ・ Andrea White for the Princeton Environmental InstituteA team of researchers from Princeton University, the International Livestock Research Institute, the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy has conducted for the first time a broad assessment of antibiotic consumption in livestock…
