Measuring Progress towards Health SDGs: Great Effort, More Needed
Earlier this month, the first analysis of countries’ progress towards attaining the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was published in the Lancet. The Institute for Health Metrics and...
View ArticleA Global Burden of Disease Data Plus Model to Inform Domestic...
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) country rankings can strengthen the case of advocates at global and national levels for prioritising investment towards the major drivers of mortality and morbidity. But...
View ArticleControlling the HIV/AIDS Epidemic by 2020 Will Not End US Responsibilities in...
Although the Trump administration has pivoted away from global leadership in many foreign policy arenas, Secretary Tillerson’s September 19 announcement of administration support for PEPFAR’s newly...
View ArticleDear Finance Minister: The World Bank Has Cleared the Air on Tobacco Taxes
Dear Finance Minister,This Wednesday, you will be attending an event on tobacco taxes at the World Bank’s annual meetings, where President Jim Kim and Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be speaking. You will...
View ArticleDefining Benefits for Universal Health Care—How Governments Can Get the Most...
Vaccinate children against measles and mumps or pay for the costs of dialysis treatment for kidney disease patients? Pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery, or channel money toward...
View ArticleAnother One Joins the DIB: OPIC Commits $2 Million to a Development Impact...
OPIC recently announced it will invest $2 million in a Development Impact Bond (DIB) aimed at improving the availability and quality of cataract surgery services in Cameroon. Specifically, OPIC’s...
View ArticlePreparing for the Next Ebola Outbreak: Incentivising the Right Type of Capacity
In April this year, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a report making the case for “Integrating Clinical Research into Epidemic Response.” As reflected in...
View ArticleThree Lessons from the OIG’s Wambo.org Audit
The Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a new audit report on Wambo.org, its online procurement platform for drugs and other health commodities. The headline: despite high...
View ArticleMore Health for the Money through Better Purchasing Decisions: The Case of Ghana
Whether it’s called strategic purchasing, evidence-informed commissioning, or value-based insurance, the quest to squeeze better value out of existing resources is global. But lack of clarity regarding...
View ArticleNew Evidence on the Health Loss but not the Health Gain from WHO's 2009 AIDS...
We here at CGD tend to be critical of international agencies like WHO or the UNDP for establishing targets or guidelines without sufficient consideration of the impacts, for good and ill, of those...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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,...
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