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August 03, 2023
On August 1, 2023, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken launched the new Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the Acheson Auditorium in the State Department. Reorganizing government is unglamorous and rife with political hazards, but it has the potential to build a faster and better...
Blog Post
August 03, 2023
No healthcare system has an unlimited budget, and policy makers everywhere must balance demand for new health services with finite resources. Priority setting systems, often in the form of health technology assessment (HTA), can help evaluate whether health services provide good value for the money...
Blog Post
May 24, 2023
The Working Group has been built on existing proposals and initiatives which people from across the AMR space have kindly taken the time to share with us during the last 18 months. Indeed, more than 60 percent of people that we interviewed as part of our Landscape Review highlighted the need for a b...
Blog Post
May 18, 2023
Today we launched two country case studies examining policy proposals to improve antimicrobial procurement in India and Brazil (versão em português). These studies are outputs of CGD’s working group on antimicrobial procurement in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which is developing recomme...
Blog Post
May 02, 2023
The investment case for bolstering global systems for pandemic preparedness and response is clear. Yet, COVID-19 exposed gaping holes in our collective ability to respond to pandemic threats. And even after more than 6.9 million deaths from COVID-19 and trillions in economic losses, financing and po...
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April 25, 2023
This month, Ghana and Nigeria became the first two countries to approve the use of R21, a vaccine that may have game-changing effectiveness in protecting people from malaria. The emergence of effective vaccines promises a new golden age of success in the fight against malaria, just as such efforts h...
Blog Post
April 24, 2023
Despite the vivid challenges of the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world remains unprepared to manufacture and distribute vaccines for the next large health emergency or pandemic. Although the global response to COVID-19 has seen major advances in vaccine technology and distribution, it h...