Commentary

Over the last twenty plus years, global health has benefited from the emergence of new financing models and “global health initiatives” (GHIs), including Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. These innovative GHIs were created to provide rapid reduc...

Substantial investments are needed in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and address the climate crisis. Most of these resources will need to be mobilized domestically. We argue that prospects to boost domestic revenue in SSA countries are grim, and future t...

At the World Bank Spring Meetings in April earlier this year, World Bank President, Ajay Banga along with the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Japan’s Minister of Finance, Shunichi Suzuki announced the launch of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Know...

Despite the approaching 2025 deadline for the Global Nutrition Targets, nutrition interventions remain fragmented and poorly integrated into the health system. Many countries continue to struggle with integrating comprehensive nutrition strategies into their health benefits packages to achieve unive...

Welp, that was quite a fortnight. Under normal circumstances I’d be leading with LeBron James defying Father Time YET AGAIN, and LeBron and Steph Curry finally delivering the two-man game that nightmares are made of, or with Mijain Lopez winning his *fifth* gold in a row with another dominant perfor...

See where House and Senate appropriators seem ready to go for the proverbial development gold and what foreign aid spending asks might not make the cut.   

A look at the conditions which enable women’s leadership by contrasting Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a region that is ahead of most in women’s presence in politics, with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that is currently some steps behind.