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Blog Post
February 09, 2012
Published last week in The Lancet, a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) finds that there were 1.2 million deaths from malaria in 2010, not 655 thousand as estimated by the WHO. Following its release, headlines began splashing uncritically: “Malaria kills twice as man...
Blog Post
February 08, 2012
This is a joint post with Denizhan Duran.
Which donor provides the "best" health aid, and why is it a relevant question? We attempted to answer these questions by adapting the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) methodology to health aid. To be honest, one working paper later, ...
Blog Post
January 26, 2012
Vaccine uptake in several countries is stagnating or even declining (see here and here for example). What explains this poor uptake and coverage? Public health researchers have recently begun to apply the concept of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ and ‘vaccine refusal’, largely focusing on individual knowledge...