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CGD NOTES
August 18, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for COVID-19 on May 5 and for mpox on May 11, 2023. Throughout its use, the meaning of the PHEIC has been muddled. We call for a new, objective epidemic scale that better communicates...
Blog Post
August 16, 2023
Despite verbal nods to global cooperation, equity, and solidarity, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a brutal realpolitik: all countries will put their citizens first and vaccinate their own populations, before offering charitable leftovers beyond their own borders. Sub-Saharan Africa, more than any o...
CGD NOTES
August 09, 2023
Assessment of health system performance is a complex task, especially amid major political change, structural reforms, and a global pandemic. The Health Policy paper by Felicia Marie Knaul and colleagues in The Lancet identifies many challenges to improving the performance of the Mexican health syst...
POLICY PAPERS
August 07, 2023
A main driver of antimicrobial resistance is the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials. But lack of access to antimicrobials causes a large mortality burden and contributes to the spread of resistant infections. How can learnings from the use of control policies in other areas of medicine be translat...
Blog Post
August 07, 2023
In a new paper, we argue that the idea of “stewardship”—and the tension between some stewardship policies and patient access—extends well beyond antimicrobials, to all drug classes. We consider the many reasons why governments opt to impose controls on medicines, and how rationales for control relat...
Blog Post
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 02, 2023
The future of such spending in countries currently experiencing or at high risk of debt distress is particularly troubling. A country is in debt distress when its ability to service domestic and external debt is impaired. This blog post delves into these issues based on more recent health spending a...
Blog Post
July 27, 2023
Last week’s Senate Appropriations Committee markup revealed a vast gulf dividing the Capitol with respect to development and diplomacy funding for the coming fiscal year. The two chambers’ State and Foreign Operations spending bill toplines are more than $9 billion apart, with the House coming in at...
Blog Post
July 25, 2023
The principle of a “just transition” is anchored in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But only in recent years has this principle been fully recognized as an enabler and accelerator of coal power decarbonization efforts. A just transition integrates decarbonization efforts with measures to mitigate the dire...
CGD NOTES
July 25, 2023
The principle of a “just transition” is anchored in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But only in recent years has the principle been fully recognized as an enabler and accelerator of power decarbonization efforts by integrating measures that aim to mitigate the direct, indirect, and induced adverse impacts...