...Resources for the Future , the Centers for Disease Control, and many others have been sounding the alarm about the growing threat from resistant microorganisms and the need for innovation in the area of antibiotics. Congress must listen.

--Senator Orrin Hatch, on the floor of the Senate, introducing the Hatch Amendment on Antibiotics and Enantiomers, May 7, 2007

Extending the Cure aims to distinguish effective incentive-based policies to prolong antibiotic effectiveness through rigorous un-biased research. Communicating our findings in order to affect real change is central to our mission. To that end, we offer policy briefs, which explain various problems in controlling resistant bacteria. These briefs condense and restate the information presented in our scientific papers so that they might be digestible for our policy audiences. In addition to the policy briefs, several policy options are outlined in the following table.