凯文·奥特森教授向众议院抗生素耐药性委员会提供专家证词

On September 18 President Obama signed an 行政命令 outlining his plan to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a growing public health crises that claims approximately 37,000 lives a year. The following day the House Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing entitled 21世纪的治愈：澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究对抗抗生素耐药性和促进新药开发的方法.

The hearing brought together a panel of policy experts, including the Food & Drug Administration’s director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and 澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究, the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Director of Medical Programs at the Pew Charitable Trusts, as well as senior executives from two drug companies, a clinical professor of medicine, and 波士顿大学法学院’s 凯文Outterson.

奥特森因其在抗菌素耐药性法律生态方面的工作而得到广泛认可。 他是美国疾病控制与预防中心抗菌素耐药性工作组的创始成员，也是伦敦查塔姆澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究所皇家国际事务澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究所的副澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究员。 He publishes frequently on the need to overhaul the current economic system driving antibiotic research and development, most recently in a paper entitled “可持续抗生素的新商业模式.” On October 6, Professor Outterson will give the Keynote Speech at the kickoff of a major European effort in Geneva to fix the broken business model for antibiotics:http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v13/n10/full/nrd4455.html

在他的证词中，奥特森主张，除其他事项外，应该更好地激励制药公司生产新的抗生素，并指出生产这些抗生素的好处将超过成本。 “但是，”他说，“我们应该考虑的不仅仅是药物，还应该在细菌疫苗、诊断和其他设备、国家卫生澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究院的基础澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究、监测和感染控制方面投入类似的资金。” 细菌疫苗对健康有明显的影响，通过预防感染减少了对抗生素的需求。”

奥巴马总统的行政命令要求成立一个国家特别工作组，制定一项五年澳门威尼斯人注册行动计划，概述目标、衡量成功的标准和相关的实施时间表。 “白宫的计划满足了采取澳门威尼斯人注册行动的迫切需要，”奥特森教授说。 “我希望它能在国会得到认真讨论和采纳。”

Watch Professor Outterson’s testimony (beginning at 1:45).