PEPFAR Takes a Lead on Data Transparency – Could Open Contracting Be Next?
While the numbers coming out of side events at Addis were hardly worth the single shake of a string-free pom-pom, and the launch of a Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data raised a lot of...
View ArticleYou Ask, We Answer: What Would US Global Health Reform Really Look Like?
As we gear up for the 2016 election, we’re thinking critically about how the next US president can increase the impact and efficiency of America’s taxpayer-funded global health investments. The US...
View ArticleAn Insider’s Perspective on Delivering a DIB
No one said creating development impact bonds (DIB) was going to be easy, but that hasn’t stopped the development community from trying to get them off the ground. The Fred Hollows Foundation, based in...
View ArticleThe World Bank Keeps Missing Opportunities to Save Lives and Mobilize...
I have argued that tobacco taxes are the single best health policy that any country could implement. The World Bank is the most prominent organization in the world with the skills, mandate, and network...
View ArticleThe 5000% Price Increase and the Economic Case for Pharma Price Regulation
You’ve probably already heard about the pharma outrage du jour. In short: start-up Turing Pharmaceuticals, led by combative ex-hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, recently acquired Daraprim, a 60+...
View ArticleThe Importance of Global Health Investment
One of the things I am proudest of having done in Washington was having the idea as Chief Economist of the World Bank that the Bank should devote its annual World Development Report to making the case...
View ArticleUS Senators Mobilize on Improving Maternal and Child Health
The recent SDG summit and the UN General Assembly celebrated the global halving of childhood deaths from over 12 million in 1990 to around 6 million per year in 2015, a major accomplishment. However,...
View ArticleThree Ways to Make Room for Mental Health
Globally, over a billion people are likely to experience a mental disorder in their lifetime, with the majority in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Mental illnesses are responsible for 7.4% of...
View ArticleBill to Help Save Lives of Women and Children Gains More Bipartisan Support
While the House version of the legislation echoes much of what comprises the Senate bill, there are two differences worth noting. Blog: Global Health Policy BlogAuthor(s): Lauren Post
View ArticleTo Achieve Global Health “Convergence,” an Evolving Role for Health Aid
Imagine a world in which children in Zambia, Bolivia, and Laos have the same chance to survive, grow, and thrive as their peers in Canada or Europe. Such a world sounds nice, to be sure, but probably...
View ArticleFamily Planning Commitments: Much Achieved, But Short of Goal
Since the start of FP2020’s endeavor to mobilize increased global effort on family planning as a means to empower women and improve health, about 24 million more women with reported unmet need are...
View ArticleRight Idea on Ross Malaria Funding, Wrong Execution
The United Kingdom, in its new Aid Strategy out this week, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have jointly announced the creation of a £1 billion Ross Fund (named after a pioneering scientist)...
View ArticleHospitals Are Key to Reaching Universal Health Coverage
The global commitment to universal health coverage—target 3.8 of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development—is as ambitious as it is energizing. Ensuring everyone, everywhere around the world has...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day DREAMS Made Real: How Cash Transfers for Girls Can Work
Related post: UNAIDS and African AIDS Programs Agree That Effective HIV Prevention Depends on Location, Location, LocationBlog: Global Health Policy BlogAuthor(s): Amanda Glassman
View ArticleUNAIDS and African AIDS Programs Agree That Effective HIV Prevention Depends...
As it does every year at this time, UNAIDS has released its World AIDS Day report. With five out of seven HIV infected people living in Africa, it is appropriate that the report is released here at the...
View ArticleMore on Cash Transfers to Reduce HIV among Adolescents
My recent blog on cash transfers as a tool for HIV prevention among adolescent girls and young women left out results from a number of recent evaluations that illustrate the importance of program...
View ArticleHow to Make Fiscal Transfers Work for Better Health
India matters for global health. It accounts not only for about one-fifth of the global population, but also one-fifth of the global disease burden. Yet the Indian government spends only 1 percent of...
View ArticleLeveraging Nobel Prize Economics for Improved Global Fund Grant Performance
Those who follow CGD will be familiar with our branded meme: “Cash on Delivery” aid, or COD. Many are enthusiastic about COD’s potential to revolutionize aid effectiveness. Yet within some global...
View ArticleTo Defeat AIDS, TB, and Malaria, a New Generation of Financing Models
This week, the Global Fund partnership will meet in Tokyo to plan for its fifth voluntary replenishment, covering the period 2017-2019. The stakes are high: in an austere budget climate, the Global...
View ArticleWant to Save Lives and Money? Invest in Hospitals.
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