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Blog Post
November 10, 2022
Laboratories are a fundamental component of health systems, critical in routine and emergency contexts for both disease surveillance and health services for communicable and non-communicable diseases. Investing in laboratories helps countries to create integrated and resilient health systems, achiev...
Blog Post
September 22, 2022
The UK is being asked for £1.8 billion, making this one of the biggest decisions facing James Cleverly, the new Secretary of State, within his first two weeks of the job. We will review what is known about the FCDO’s likely commitment, and recommend four key questions that the new Secretary of State...
Blog Post
August 10, 2022
PEPFAR’s new strategy—to be released in final form later this year—focuses on how to accelerate progress toward epidemic control amidst continued impacts from COVID-19, while also strengthening core health system functions as well as partnership and coordination efforts; this is precisely what the c...
Blog Post
July 19, 2022
Decision makers within governments, aid agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs have not yet fully harnessed the value of evidence for better public policies. To address this missed opportunity, we convened a virtual working group from 2020 to 2022, bringing together 40 policymakers and exper...
Blog Post
June 10, 2022
In June 2021, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, offered a challenge to the world: “To truly end the pandemic, our goal must be to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the world’s population by the time you meet again in Germany next year.” However, as we approach this year’s G7 summit, the 70 percent target has b...
Blog Post
April 28, 2022
In the past two years, we have all learned that the end of a COVID-19 wave is the end of a chapter, not the end of the story. Ongoing COVID transmission means the risk of new variants of pandemic potential is ever present and vaccination remains our best defence. The primary near-term challenges for...