The university received $1.52 million in funding for antimicrobial resistance research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2023, the second most of any university in the Western U.S.
A pair of federal grants will help researchers better understand and predict how infectious diseases behave and spread in health care settings and other small populations.
WSU researchers will use an NSF grant to study how the interaction between hospital or nursing home facilities and the community affects the spread of infectious diseases.