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POLICY PAPERS
Beyond COVID-19: A Whole of Health Look at Impacts During the Pandemic Response
Y-Ling Chi et al.
July 01, 2020
Substantial evidence has emerged relating to the potential magnitude of the indirect health effects of the coronavirus pandemic.This paper provides an overview of the lessons learned from previous outbreaks and economic crises in relation to indirect health effects as well as a framework for adoptin...
Blog Post
A Framework for Identifying the Sources of Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19
Y-Ling Chi et al.
July 01, 2020
This blog unveils a framework that can help policymakers move to a holistic COVID-19 response that accounts for the impacts of the pandemic and the measures implemented to fight it.
CGD NOTES
Protecting Community Health Workers: PPE Needs and Recommendations for Policy Action
Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy et al.
June 15, 2020
Community health workers (CHWs) are often the first point of care for vulnerable and underserved populations in low- and middle-income countries, but do they have the PPE they need to do their jobs?
Blog Post
Using Military Health Systems in the Response to COVID-19
Joseph Kazibwe et al.
June 15, 2020
COVID-19 has placed an unimaginable strain on health systems across the world, especially in regions that have been hit hardest. Some countries have utilised their armed forces to assist the civilian response to the COVID-19 crisis. Recognising the important relationship between the military an...
CGD NOTES
India’s COVID-19 Testing Capacity Must Grow by a Factor of 10: Here’s How That Can Happen
Prashant Yadav et al.
June 04, 2020
Diagnostic testing is at the center of the policy debate around COVID-19 interventions in India. As of June 1, 2020, India had conducted approximately 3.8 million tests since it began testing in February, but many experts have noted that testing capacity is still drastically insufficient for the ne...
Blog Post
The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Lockdown Measures and Service Provision
Lydia Regan
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Y-Ling Chi
June 04, 2020
As we head into June, reports have continued to emerge that highlight the magnitude of the indirect effects the COVID-19 pandemic is having on  health systems around the world. The pandemic has created additional barriers for patients accessing essential care, whether it be restrictions on...
Blog Post
The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Disrupted and Suspended Health Services
Lydia Regan
and
Y-Ling Chi
May 12, 2020
The full impacts of COVID-19 and the restrictions adopted to mitigate the pandemic are yet to be fully revealed. We do not know the number of deaths indirectly related to the novel coronavirus around the world, and how these may differ from country to country. We are launching an inventory to track ...