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BRIEF
July 18, 2025
Gavi’s board and leadership must stretch scarce resources to fulfill a challenging double mandate: (1) stabilizing immunization outcomes and fiscal solvency in Gavi-eligible countries facing severe health financing shocks; and (2) laying the groundwork for durable transformation via a radically simp...
BRIEF
July 10, 2025
In this brief—the first in the Tough Times, Tough Choices series that will target the major global health and development institutions and their funders—we propose a different approach: radically streamlining the WHO to fulfil its unique global functions. Instead of muddling through with budget cuts...
POLICY PAPER
March 04, 2025
Despite strong evidence of impact and cost-effectiveness, nutrition interventions are consistently underprioritized and underresourced within the health sector. Drawing from relevant experiences in the broader global health landscape, this paper proposes four policy recommendations to enhance the ne...
BRIEF
September 12, 2024
COVID-19 laid bare the shortcomings in health product markets that contributed to inequitable access to medical countermeasures like vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries. A key challenge is that manufacturing for health products is concentrated in a handful of co...
PUBLICATION
June 10, 2024
Gavi’s new CEO, Dr. Sania Nishtar, has taken the helm at a critical time. Gavi is embarking on its new five-year strategy, known as "Gavi 6.0," and preparing to launch its next replenishment campaign.
To help shape the new CEO’s agenda, the Center for Global Development has curated a new virtual ...
POLICY PAPER
April 08, 2024
The global locus of undervaccination is increasingly shifting from the poorest countries in the world—which are eligible for support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance—to middle-income countries (MICs) that do not qualify for traditional Gavi support. Given these growing challenges, Gavi must rethink i...
POLICY PAPER
January 30, 2024
For nearly 25 years, Gavi has delivered impact and value for money and remained one of the most successful global health initiatives. Gavi’s success has been driven by its use of three primary levers: (1) accelerating new vaccine introductions, (2) increasing equitable immunization coverage, and (3)...
