The world desperately needs new antibiotics—and finally, the G7 is ready match commitments with action. We already found that the US would pay $17.9 billion over 30 years but save 383,000 American lives and harvest $495 billion in value. What would be the benefits to other members of the G7, and who...

The IFC isn’t finding more private sector projects to support in IDA countries even with the backing of both PSW financing and retained earnings used to hire more staff to look for projects. Absent actual projects to invest in, PSW resources are increasingly committed to regional and global faciliti...

As leaders gather for the upcoming US-Africa Leaders Summit, fostering economic cooperation and development is at the top of the agenda. To achieve transformational advances towards this goal, tackling childcare must be a core issue of discussion

How exactly should China's policymakers wade through competing models and guidance as it looks to ease its anti-COVID measures? This blog looks at how they should use models, using the case of the state of Hawaii; in sum, recommending that China’s National Health Commission take a thoughtful approac...

On November 3, 2022, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and Minister of Health Carolina Corcho announced a new model of health delivery for the nation. This blog uses the health system assessment method presented in the book Getting Health Reform Right to examine four fundamental flaws in the logic ...

If the Biden administration wants to forge stronger bonds with African governments in the lead up to mid-December’s US-Africa Leaders Summit, it will have to focus on meeting the needs of those governments during a particularly difficult economic period. One useful but greatly underutilized instrum...

This week marks the third African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH) week—a critical touch point in ongoing efforts to expand access to quality-assured medicines across the African continent. However, a big concern looms: how to best ensure long-term sustainable funding for regulatory systems...