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POLICY PAPER
September 30, 2025
Healthcare supply chain financing is critical to health system performance but remains neglected—often fragmented, donor-dependent, and inefficient—leading to stockouts and high out-of-pocket costs. With aid declining, the paper develops a new framework linking health financing and supply chains to ...
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...
CGD NOTE
June 12, 2025
In early 2025, the Trump administration began making drastic cuts to USAID and other global health programming, including the reduction and/or elimination of long-standing global health supply chain programs. The United States has historically been a major funder of global health supply chains, and ...
POLICY PAPER
April 16, 2025
Health taxes are a well-known fiscal measure for discouraging consumption of unhealthy products like tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages. Less well known are opportunities to eliminate government subsidies. This paper is an inquiry into subsidies for tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages, produc...
CGD NOTE
November 12, 2024
In recent decades, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have turned to health technology assessment (HTA) to prioritize health care interventions in pursuit of universal health coverage. HTA has demonstrated its value through significant cost savings, as demonstrated by Thailand and Brazil, whe...
BRIEF
September 18, 2024
EU member states have ambitious green transition targets and healthcare strategies in place, requiring the relevant sectors to expand. Yet these sectors are already suffering from large workforce shortages. Expanding skilled migration from third countries to the EU to meet these shortages risks stri...
