The Washington-based American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is changing its focus: The group wants to be more proactive in advocating for health care solutions related to its field. To help accomplish that, ASM is creating new units, each led by a staff member and a volunteer leader, to focus attention on specific areas of science and possibly make policy recommendations.In the words of CEO Stefano Bertuzzi, associations like ASM, with its healthy portfolio of service businesses, have become too much like “price takers rather than price setters.” That’s a phrase from economics that might seem arcane, but Bertuzzi means that it’s better to set the pace than to have the pace be dictated to… Read More