As UN General Assembly Highlights Tuberculosis Fight, Will BRICS Lead on the...
CGD experts explain how the BRICS—home to 40 percent of all cases last year—could provide much-needed leadership on the global TB agenda.Blog: Global Health Policy BlogAuthor(s): Rachel...
View ArticleCall a Spade a Spade: Venezuela is a Public Health Emergency
Health outcomes in Venezuela are approaching emergency-like levels as services, medicines, and food become increasingly inaccessible. Venezuela’s under-5 mortality rate in 2016 already rivaled Syria’s,...
View ArticleReplenishment Crunch Ahead: Implications for the Future of Global Health...
In 2019, major sources of concessional finance—the big global health funders like the Global Fund and Gavi, as well as the development-bank-based IDA and the African Development Fund—will ask donors...
View ArticlePEPFAR’s New Targets for Local Implementation: Commendable in Theory,...
In July, United States Global AIDS Coordinator Deborah Birx made a striking commitment: under her leadership, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) would direct at least 40 percent of...
View ArticleTime to Deliver: New Ebola Findings Highlight the Need to Improve Evidence...
On July 23, an outbreak report in The Lancet Infectious Diseases documented the case of a female Ebola survivor who transmitted the virus to family members more than year later. This raises new...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About Global Health Financing Transitions: Five Key...
In recent years many global health institutions—particularly Gavi and the Global Fund—have adopted eligibility and transition frameworks for the countries they support. These frameworks lay out...
View ArticleWill PEPFAR “Acceleration” Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is?
We finally have some clarity on PEPFAR’s new “acceleration” strategy toward epidemic control: a lot more allocated to a few countries, and a lot less for others.Blog: Global Health Policy BlogViews...
View ArticleJean Tirole Connects the Dots: Lessons from Modern Economics for Global...
At CGD, we believe that the thoughtful application of economic theory and evidence can help build a better world. This conviction is clearly shared by Dr. Jean Tirole, Nobel laureate in economics and...
View ArticleGlobal Health Development Value Frameworks: Are We Calculating Well and Wisely?
The last several years have seen the development of many decision-support tools (“value frameworks”) for supporting policy and investment decisions. These tools make use of lots of numbers representing...
View ArticleGlobal Health Security in the Trump Era: Time to Worry?
Is it time to ring the alarm bell on a declining US commitment to global health security? For most of the past year, I would have said no. But after the last few weeks, I’m starting to think so. And...
View ArticleEbola Again: Preparedness Is Still Underfinanced, but New Opportunities Are...
On May 8, the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new Ebola outbreak. While new tools are in place, it’s past time to recognize the need to adequately finance preparedness at home and abroad,...
View ArticleIt’s (Past) Time We Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted an advance screening of the PBS Great Decisions episode, "Global Health: Preventing Pandemic.” After the screening, a panel...
View ArticleThe State of Global Health Commodity Procurement: Moving from Data Points to...
“Better data drive better decisions” is a truism that researchers everywhere are all too familiar with. Increasing the availability, usability, and relevance of data is key to tracking performance and...
View ArticleMore Health for The Money: How to Make UHC a Reality for Everyone, Everywhere
We can make UHC happen in our lifetime by targeting investments and incentives on the highest impact interventions among the most affected populations in developing countries.Blog: Global Health Policy...
View ArticleResults-Based Funding in Health: Progress in Poorest Communities in Mesoamerica
Early this month, CGD co-hosted a conference with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), highlighting progress, challenges, and lessons learned from the first phase of the Salud Mesoamerica...
View ArticleThe Need for New Approaches to Global Health Aid Allocation
Aid allocation has been a topic of much investigation across several fields. In particular, many studies have looked at the patterns of development assistance for health (DAH). For example, a study by...
View ArticleEnvisioning Pay-for-Success: Learning from an Eye Health DIB in Cameroon
In 2013, a CGD working group signaled important benefits of development impact bonds, and worked through some of the “how-to” of design and implementation. Yet five years later, only three development...
View ArticleSizing Up Health Commodity Markets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Take One
What can we say about the relative size and composition of health commodity markets across different countries? We took a stab at piecing together publicly available data sources to find an initial...
View ArticleSmarter Investments for Better Health: Celebrating Country Progress Towards...
December 12 marks the fifth annual Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day. Half a decade after the landmark UN endorsement, more countries than ever are working to translate UHC goals into reality through...
View ArticleAccess to Contraception: A Key Ingredient in Women’s Economic Empowerment
This Thursday December 7, CGD will host a group of economists and policymakers to discuss global evidence on the causal relationship between access to contraception and women’s economic...
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