In this episode of Infectious Conversations, Dr. Michael Miller discusses the growing challenge of vaccine misinformation and its impact on public health. Drawing from his book "Reversing Misinformation: How to Help Your Family, Friends & Community," Dr. Miller shares insights into why people believe misinformation and provides practical strategies for having constructive conversations with folks who have been misinformed. Dr. Miller and our host, Candace DeMatteis, discuss the potential public health risks of declining vaccination rates, particularly for diseases like measles as well as potential future pandemics. Tune in for valuable guidance on how to effectively engage with friends, family, and anyone in your community who may be skeptical about vaccines.

Welcome back to Infectious Conversations – a podcast from the Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease. In our latest episode, PFID's Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, Candace DeMatteis, sits down with Dr. Eli Cahan. Dr. Cahan is a pediatrician, an academic researcher, and an award-winning investigative journalist. Candace and Dr. Cahan discussed his recent feature in Rolling Stone titled, "Could a Conflict-Borne Superbug Bring on Our Next Pandemic?" and the argument that AMR is "the climate change of medicine," with drug-resistant bacterial infections on track to claim more than 39 million lives over the next 25 years, per a recent study published in The Lancet.

In the newest episode of Infectious Conversations, Candace chats with Dr. Steffanie Strathdee: an infectious disease epidemiologist, the Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and Co-director at the Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH). Dr. Strathdee relied on her extensive knowledge of infectious diseases to help save her husband’s life using phage therapy after he developed a life-threatening, drug-resistant infection in 2016. The couple later wrote a book together titled “The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug,” which was published in 2019. To contact IPATH, email ipath@ucsd.edu.