Time Has Value: The Hidden Time Costs of Community Health Worker Programs
Recruiting community members with basic training for health promotion and care delivery is increasingly popular among development programs in low- and middle-income countries. This approach has great...
View ArticleOn Family Planning, Financing, and Fine Lines: Recapping ICFP 2016
Last week, more than 3,000 policymakers, practitioners, researchers, donors, and advocates descended upon Nusa Dua, Indonesia, for the 4th International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP). From the...
View ArticleThe International Decision Support Initiative Is Scaling Up—That Means Better...
The International Decision Support Initiative, initially launched as the result of a CGD working group, is scaling up, and that’s good news for people making life-and-death decisions in low- and...
View ArticleAnother Emergency Funding Request for Global Health. Can’t We Do Better?
As the Administration prepares to ask Congress for an emergency $1.8 billion to support the Zika response, I’m reminded again that the United States is the de facto first responder to infectious...
View ArticleHow to Decide “Who Gets What” in Health: Takeaways from the 2016 Prince...
The topic of priority-setting has gained some serious momentum since CGD’s 2012 seminal working group report: in January, nearly 1,000 policymakers, practitioners, researchers, donors, and advocates...
View ArticleLeverage Existing Data to Tackle Quality of Healthcare
The quality of healthcare services is firmly on the global health and development agenda: it is explicitly part of SDG target 3.8 on universal health coverage and a key feature of USAID’s Vision for...
View ArticleMillions Saved: Time for Optimism, but Not Complacency in Global Health
Over the past decade we’ve seen major progress in fighting some of the world’s worst health scourges: AIDS deaths are on the decline, polio has been eliminated in all but two countries, more people...
View ArticleHow Could the Global Fund Get More Health for Its Money? Lessons from the...
Our recent report on next generation financing models looks at how global health donors, specifically the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, can enhance the health impact of grants by...
View ArticleWhat Drug Patents Do Is Complicated: A Belated Contribution from Jenny...
When it comes to the challenge of ensuring access to medicines in developing countries, three distinct issues often get conflated: innovation, availability, and affordability. Recent research from CGD...
View ArticleA New Language for Global Mental Health: Economics
In the coming week, a series of high-level meetings will thrust mental health into the spotlight of the development world. Five days of events (listed below), centered around the World Bank annual...
View ArticleCongressional Panel Looks to Learn from Ebola
In an election year, it can start to seem like every policy issue qualifies as contentious. Perhaps that’s why the constructive, bipartisan discussion featured in last week’s Senate Foreign Relations...
View ArticlePartnerships, Political Will, and Proof: Takeaways from the "Millions Saved"...
April 5 marked the official launch of our new book, Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health. The new volume features case studies of 22 health programs from around the world and...
View ArticleConfronting Antimicrobial Resistance: Can We Get to Collective Action?
Imagine if a small cut could evolve into a lengthy hospital stay, or worse; if doctors refused to perform surgery or transplants due to prohibitive risk during recovery; and if our collective gains...
View ArticleNext Up on the Universal Health Coverage Agenda: Value for Money
At the World Bank’s Annual Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Financing Forum this year, I took part in a mock competition to help determine the topic of next year’s forum. I was up against Larry Gostin,...
View ArticleFailing to Deliver on Family Planning? Funding in Crisis
More than 5000 international personalities and technical experts are wrapping up the Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen this week. The topic: how to empower women, reduce gender inequality, and...
View ArticleWill IDA18 Usher In Banking against the Superbugs?
From the superbug scare in Pennsylvania last month to the UK’s recently released Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, slowing the rate at which infections become resistant to antibiotics is rising up...
View ArticleWill AIDS Treatment Conquer the AIDS Epidemic?
In Durban, South Africa, thousands are currently gathered at the International AIDS Conference to share, learn, teach, and advocate for ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. This global goal, advanced in...
View ArticleSetting Universal Health Coverage Priorities: India and Dialysis
India's Ministry of Health is committed to universal health coverage and has announced its plan to provide dialysis in the face of rising kidney failure. But providing dialysis for all who need it...
View ArticlePay 'em or Don’t Charge 'em? The Case of Conditional Cash Transfers and...
Should patients be paid to seek lifesaving services? Should patients receive lifesaving service free of charge? While these two questions have typically been studied separately, we decided to take a...
View ArticleSix Ways the Next US President Can Do Better on Global Health
The next US president will face ongoing and emerging global health crises. The next administration must work to transform the US approach to global health and global health security to protect the...
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