Building Awareness Against the Silent Pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance
The USD Discovery District recently hosted an insightful podcast conversation exploring one of the most pressing yet under-discussed global health threats: antimicrobial resistance (AMR), often described as a silent pandemic.
In this episode of the podcast, host Tung Nguyen sat down with Dr. Patrick Rynn Hogan, DHA, author of the newly published book The Silent Pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance: Why the Next Global Health Crisis Has Already Begun.
Dr. Hogan, CEO of Prescient Healthcare, shared compelling insights into why AMR represents a system-level failure that spans healthcare, agriculture, supply chains, and innovation ecosystems. He emphasized that while AMR has been evolving for decades, its impacts are accelerating—contributing to hundreds of thousands of deaths annually through conditions like sepsis, UTIs, and persistent infections that were once easily treatable.