In this episode, Yubraj Acharya discusses his paper ‘Reducing Non-Prescription Antibiotics Use through Community Education in Low-Income Countries’. He sheds light on the growing issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and shares about the intervention he conducted in Nepal, aimed at reducing non-prescribed antibiotic use among parents of children.

Guest: Yubraj Acharya, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography at Pennsylvania State University, The United States.

Hosts: Fanny Tallgren, Karen Trujillo Jara

Timestamps:

0:36 Meet our guest: Yubraj Acharya

06:00 Drivers of antibiotics use in community contexts

11:40 Series of work conducted on Antimicrobial Resistance

12:30 Components of the study intervention in Nepal

21:50 Findings 

33:10 Considerations for scaling up a similar study in other settings

37:00 Experience of living in Rotterdam