June 22, 2023
What should the World Bank’s underfunded Pandemic Fund do with its limited resources? With public health spending expected to remain below global needs, getting this right is critical.
A new research paper from the Center for Global Development argues that the fund should be offering countries a menu of surveillance approaches to best suit their specific needs.
But there is a significant shortage of evidence on the best approaches to surveillance. “We need to make this more actionable and more concrete,” says CGD researcher Victoria Fan.