Highlights
View webinars featuring leading experts in fungal diseases from around the world, access tools and information for healthcare providers, and hear from CDC experts on podcasts covering a range of fungal disease topics.
Webinars
Fungal Diseases: Global Challenges and Opportunities
Webinar featuring the World Health Organization, CDC, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),& National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa
Antifungal Resistance: A Global Health Perspective
CDC and WHO webinar covering new research and surveillance methods and information on Candida auris and antimicrobial resistant Aspergillus fumigatus and dermatophyte infections.
Note: To access video, please register with WHO AMR Community exchange.
Algorithms for Diagnosing the Endemic Mycoses Blastomycosis, Coccidioidomycosis, and Histoplasmosis
Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Call featuring new diagnostic algorithms for endemic fungal diseases.
Communication resources
Health professional fact sheets and job aids
Testing Algorithms for Fungal Pnuemonias
Podcasts
- ABC News podcast, Start Here: Fungus Among Us (2024) Dr. Tom Chiller, Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch, gives an overview of emerging fungal diseases and potential future threats including the lack of approved antifungal medications, increasing antifungal resistance, and the impacts of climate change. A patient and her doctor talk about her battle with Valley fever. Former NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski discusses the personal reasons he is concerned about the illness.
- The Lancet Microbe: Conversation with Dr. Nancy Chow on Sporotrichosis (2024) Dr. Nancy Chow, Deputy Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch talks to the Lancet about the Emergence of zoonotic sporotrichosis in Brazil: a genomic study. Findings indicate that multiple lineages of the fungus S. brasiliensis lead to the to the epidemic of cat-to-cat and cat-to-human transmitted sporotrichosis in Brazil.
- Think Fungus: Fungal Disease Awareness (2020) Dr. Tom Chiller, Chief of the Mycotic Diseases Branch, discusses the importance of increasing awareness about the risk of fungal infections, including of symptoms of these infections.
- Cryptococcus gattii in the Southeastern U.S. (2019)Dr. Shawn Lockhart, a lead research microbiologist at CDC, discusses the history of the fungus Cryptococcus gattii in the southeastern United States.
- Enhanced Surveillance for Coccidioidomycosis (2018) Kaitlin Benedict, a CDC epidemiologist, discusses Coccidioides and Valley fever.