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Blog Post
November 28, 2022
Building on the success of Operation Warp Speed, the US should deepen its engagement and ambition in global health R&D to drive transformative improvements in global health outcomes and security. Specifically, it should consider a subscription model for new antimicrobials; an advance market commitme...
Blog Post
November 16, 2022
How can we produce evidence that is more relevant and useful to policy and practice? This blog explores the main themes of the inaugural conference of Transforming Evidence Network (sessions were organized around making, mobilizing, and using evidence), and reflects on areas for further action, draw...
POLICY PAPERS
November 15, 2022
Antimicrobial drugs form the backbone of modern medicine. Yet over time, use of these drugs selects for mutations that survive exposure to those same drugs, driving “antimicrobial resistance,” or AMR. In the absence of sufficient R&D investment for new antimicrobials, deaths from drug-resistant infe...
Blog Post
November 01, 2022
Last month, we published a blog making the case for quality childcare as a “best buy” investment: one that can increase labor force participation, productivity, and income among workers, as well as improve broader well-being among children, caregivers, and communities. Our first blog summarized find...
Blog Post
October 04, 2022
Most R&D money flows from the private sector, which aims to maximize returns on investment. As a result, health R&D largely skews towards rich countries’ priorities and health system technical capacities, leaving significant gaps in diseases that primarily affect poor and marginalized populations.
POLICY PAPERS
October 04, 2022
In this paper, we report the results of a horizon-scanning exercise to source opportunities for global health R&D investment—that is, high-value potential biomedical innovations which are currently underfunded but which could be transformative for health, quality of life, and health security in LMIC...
Blog Post
September 30, 2022
Governments still need to be convinced to prioritize childcare. Context-specific data on ROI canna help with this. CGD and the World Bank’s Early Learning Partnership convened a series of technical workshops aimed at informing the approach of the newly launched World Bank Group (WBG) Invest in Child...
Blog Post
August 25, 2022
On this episode of Pandemic Proof from CGD, Dr. Boghuma Titanji, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, joins Javier Guzman to reflect on the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and response. Together they discuss the parallels between monkeypox and previous infectious di...