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Blog Post
October 09, 2024
Priority-setting in health is a critical function of all health systems, enabling countries to focus their spending on services that have the biggest impact on their citizens’ health. This works—for every dollar spent on priority-setting, countries get nine dollars of better health system impact. Ho...
Blog Post
October 07, 2024
One of the main drivers of the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)—an impending crisis which already causes over 1.25 million annual deaths globally and nearly 300,000 annual deaths in India—is the overuse of antibiotics. While access to antibiotics is key to prevent mortality, insufficient co...
Blog Post
October 01, 2024
The donation of mpox vaccines to Africa is a critical first step, but there’s much more to do to ensure that these vaccines are used effectively and equitably. By targeting the right groups for vaccination, strengthening delivery systems, and building public trust through early community engagement,...
Blog Post
September 30, 2024
Advancing sustainable yet impactful health systems must keep domestic, public spending on health as the bull’s eye of global health success. But letting a thousand flowers bloom with many agencies’ different policies may be yet another example of donors getting in the way. In the spirit of the Lusak...
POLICY PAPERS
September 30, 2024
Conditioned domestic financing policy, referring to the domestic financing of health projects, programs, and national responses conditioned by global health funding agencies and recipient country governments, is one mechanism to promote sustainability and country ownership. We aim to understand how ...
BRIEFS
September 30, 2024
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is responsible for a large and growing burden of mortality, morbidity, and economic impacts. This is due to three underlying problems: lack of access to essential antimicrobials, insufficient stewardship of these drugs to prevent overuse and misuse, and a dearth of inn...
Blog Post
September 23, 2024
In April 2021, the Center for Global Development helped raise the alarm about global lead poisoning, a staggering health and development challenge that had heretofore flown under our radar. The statistics produced by organizations like UNICEF and the NGO Pure Earth were shocking: one in three childr...
Blog Post
September 20, 2024
In this blog, we summarise WHO’s current financing model and its shortcomings, and note that the Investment Round is more likely to be a success if WHO is able to demonstrate improvements in how it will govern the use of flexible resources and prioritises raising flexible funding over more funding.
Blog Post
September 19, 2024
At the end of a year-long competition, three teams took the stage last week to pitch their visionary ideas to promote innovation for addressing climate change, pandemics, and public health. Each team was grilled by expert judges in a “Shark Tank for innovation” co-hosted by the Center for Global Dev...
