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    • Thomas Bollyky, Former Research Fellow

      Thomas J. Bollyky was a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, where his research focused on legal and regulatory issues in global health, technological innovation and delivery, and international trade.

    • Michael Clemens, Senior Fellow

      Michael Clemens leads CGD's Migration and Development initiative. His research focuses on the effects of international migration on people from and in developing countries. He also serves as CGD’s research manager, directing the Center’s engagement with the academic research community.

    • Rena Eichler, Former Visiting Fellow

      Rena Eichler, Center for Global Development Visiting Fellow, concentrates on the application of incentives to improve health system performance. She is an economist with more than fifteen years of experience working on health financing and health systems strengthening in Africa, Latin America...

    • Victoria Fan, Research Fellow

    • Amanda Glassman, Director of Global Health Policy and Research Fellow

      Amanda Glassman has 20 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Before joining CGD, Glassman was principal technical lead for health at the Inter-American Development Bank.

    • April Harding, Former Visiting Fellow

      April Harding is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development. She is an economist and health systems specialist who joined CGD from the Human Development department in the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank. For the past 8 years she's been leading the Bank's work...

    • Ruth Levine, Former Vice President for Programs and Operations, and Senior Fellow

      Ruth Levine is an internationally recognized expert on global health and health policy. She is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience designing and assessing the effects of social sector programs in Latin America, Eastern Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. In addition to...

    • Rachel Nugent, Former Deputy Director of Global Health

      Rachel Nugent was the deputy director of global health at the Center for Global Development. She lead CGD’s Demographics and Development in the 21st Century Initiative, managed the Drug Resistance & Global Health Initiative, and conducted research on non-communicable diseases in developing...

    • Nandini Oomman, Former Director, HIV/AIDS Monitor, and Senior Program Associate

      Nandini Oomman was director of the HIV/AIDS Monitor at the Center for Global Development from March 2006 until December 2011. As director, Oomman led three research teams in Uganda, Mozambique, and Zambia to track the effectiveness of the three main aid responses to the epidemic: the Global Fund,...

    • Mead Over, Senior Fellow

      Mead Over applies economics and statistics in the search for more effective, efficient, and pro-poor health policies in developing countries. His newest book is Achieving an AIDS Transition: Preventing Infections to Sustain Treatment.

    • William Savedoff, Senior Fellow

      Bill Savedoff has been working for more than 20 years on economic and social development issues. His work is focused on finding ways to improve the quality of social services in developing countries, with particular attention to incentives, institutions, and political economy. His most recent book...

    • Jeremy Shiffman, Non-Resident Fellow

      Dr. Jeremy Shiffman is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at American University and non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development.

    • Duncan Thomas, Non-Resident Fellow

  • Combating Drug Resistance

    The initiative seeks practical ways to prevent or contain the emergence of drug resistance in such high-burden diseases as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria through improvements in common-property management, information flows, and stepped up research and development.

  • Demand Forecasting

    Shortcomings in demand forecasting for essential drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics have led to unnecessarily high prices, supply shortages, and reluctance to invest in R&D for developing-country diseases. To address this challenge, CGD’s Global Health Forecasting Working Group issued...

  • Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda

    The agenda describes why and how to provide adolescent girls in developing countries a full and equal chance in life. It offers targeted recommendations for national and local governments, donor agencies, civil society, and the private sector.

  • Global Health Policy Research Network

    The Global Health Policy Research Network served as an umbrella for a large number of CGD initiatives that undertook original, focused research on high-priority global health policy issues.

  • HIV/AIDS Monitor

    The Monitor tracked and analyzed the practices of the three major global HIV/AIDS aid initiatives: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR); and the World Bank's Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program (MAP).

  • International Monetary Fund Programs and Health Spending

    The Working Group on IMF-Supported Programs and Health Expenditures investigated how macroeconomic policies under IMF programs in low-income countries interacted with the management of health spending in a context of scaled-up aid. Utilizing case studies and cross-country comparisons, the working...

  • Making Markets for Vaccines

    A CGD Working Group produced an economic and legal framework for funds to incentivize vaccine development. The G-7 Finance Ministers endorsed the approach and five donors (Canada, Italy, Norway, UK and Russia, and the Gates Foundation) committed $1.5 billion to create an incentive for a vaccine...

  • Millions Saved

    From eradication of polio in Latin America to HIV prevention in Thailand, the 17 cases in this study show that large-scale success in health are indeed possible. A companion website offers a video, teacher's guide, and information about how to achieve future successes.

  • UNAIDS Transition Working Group

    As the founding executive director of UNAIDS prepared to step down at the end of 2008, CGD and the Economic Governance Programme of Oxford University convened an expert working group to develop recommendations for the incoming leadership of UNAIDS, the Programme Coordinating Board, and other...

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  • Turning the Tide in the War on Tobacco: Bill Savedoff - Aug 15, 2011

    Most people understand the personal risks associated with smoking, but surprisingly few understand its impact globally. Every year, more people die form tobacco related illnesses than from HIV/Aids, TB and malaria combined. Nevertheless, governments and international aid agencies have yet ot pay...

  • Worms at Work: Long-run Impacts of Child Deworming in Kenya (Event) - May 27, 2011

    The Center for Global Development is proud to have hosted Prof. Michael Kremer (Harvard) and Sarah Baird (GWU) as part of the Massachusetts Avenue Development Seminar (MADS) series.  They presented the long-term, follow-up results of Prof. Kremer's research on deworming in Kenyan schools that...

  • Innovation in Vaccine Financing: Assessing Progress and Envisioning Future Directions (Event Video) - Apr 8, 2011

    In a recent speech, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah said “The evidence is clear: vaccines are the best public health investment we can make.” As the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) prepares for its June 2011 pledging conference, CGD hosted a panel to look back at global...

  • Confronting the Global Tobacco Epidemic: Thomas Bollyky - Feb 7, 2011

    Ten years after President Clinton's initiative to avert a global epidemic of tobacco-related disease, smoking is down in the United States but rising fast in poor countries, where Washington turns a blind eye to aggressive cigarette marketing banned at home. My guest on this show is Thomas...

  • The Year Ahead in Global Health at CGD: Amanda Glassman - Jan 4, 2011

    To mark the start of the new year, my guest is Amanda Glassman, CGD’s new director of global health. I asked Amanda, who previously worked at the Inter-American Development Bank, the Brookings Institution, and USAID, where she sees opportunities for progress on global health in 2011 and...

  • Non-Communicable Diseases a Huge Problem in Developing World (Interview with Rachel Nugent) - Nov 1, 2010

    Heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancers are usually considered diseases of the rich world, the result of too much food and too little exercise. But these serious diseases are already a huge problem in the developing world, accounting for about half of the burden of disease. Yet new...

  • HIV/AIDS Donors and Africa’s Health Workforce: Nandini Oomman - Sep 8, 2010

    My guest this week is Nandini Oomman, director of the Center for Global Development’s HIV/AIDS Monitor. Her team has just released a new report, Zeroing In: AIDS Donors and Africa’s Health Workforce, which looks at how AIDS programs could be better designed to strengthen the capacity of nurses...

  • Turning the Tide Through Better Prevention: Mead Over on the AIDS Transition - May 25, 2010

    Even as the cost of treating HIV/AIDS has fallen dramatically, the number of people newly infected has remained high. What can be done to reverse this trend and finally defeat this disease? This week on the Wonkcast, I’m joined by Mead Over, a senior fellow here at the Center for Global...

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