October 14, 2023
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BOSTON — During the Edward H. Kass Lecture at IDWeek, Louise Ivers, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FASTMH, addressed the crowd about infections, inequalities and the hope that everyone can contribute to improving health for all.
“My talk was really focused on how there are massive inequities in the world as it relates to infectious diseases but also many other diseases, too,” Ivers, faculty director of the Center for Global Health at the Harvard Global Health Institute, told Healio. “The chief cause of deaths — six out of the top 10 causes of deaths — in low-income countries are due to infectious diseases. Even though we have the diagnostics and therapeutics and the vaccines to prevent many of those diseases, we still see these huge disparities.”
Ivers called on everyone in the infectious disease field to “stand up and take bold action to change the status quo.”
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