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Mar
26
2024
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 2:00 - 3:30 PM GMT
March 01, 2024
Join CGD as Vinod Thomas, author of "Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change," shares some of the key ideas and lessons from the book, and other experts engage in a moderated discussion on the findings and their implications.
Nov
29
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:00—2:00 PM ET / 14:00—18:45 GMT
October 25, 2023
Join us for this year's 9th Annual Birdsall House Conference on Gender Equality, where we will shine a spotlight on the theme, "Women on the Rise: Breaking Barriers in International Financial Institutions." This conference promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of the challenges women face, ...
Sep
27
2023
VIRTUAL
9:00—10:00 AM ET / 2:00-3:00 PM BST
September 18, 2023
This discussion will focus on next steps to implement policy recommendations and build consensus on collective priorities in the lead-up to next year’s United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance—a key opportunity to set priorities and accelerate policy change.
Sep
21
2023
IN PERSON
6:30—8:00 PM ET, Sixth Floor Loft 873 Broadway, Sixth Floor New York, NY 10003
August 10, 2023
The silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent health crisis. Fixing the antimicrobial market to ensure adequate innovation, access, and stewardship is a key lever in the fight against AMR, especially to address the disproportionate burden of AMR in low- and middle-income countri...
Nov
14
2022
8:30—12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)/ 1:30—5:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
October 28, 2022
Climate change, conflict, food insecurity, and pandemics. These global challenges are growing in urgency, and complexity—and they are not confined by borders. While wealthy countries are aging and their growth rates are faltering, the traditional manufacturing-led path to rapid growth in poorer coun...
Oct
26
2022
9:00—10:00 AM Easter Time (US & Canada)/ 1:00 - 2:00pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/ 2:00 - 3:00pm British Summer Time (BST)
October 13, 2022
In September 2016, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) that underscored the severity of the risk and called for stronger infection control and surveillance, including through improved water, sanitation, and hygiene; enhanced stewardship measures; more invest...
Jun
30
2022
9:00—10:00 AM Eastern Time, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM British Summer Time
June 17, 2022
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest global public health threats facing humanity. Over 1 and a quarter million people die every year from a drug-resistant infection as a direct result of antimicrobial resistance. That’s more deaths than are caused by HIV/AIDS or malaria. This burden...
Jun
8
2022
12:00—1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
June 02, 2022
Developing countries have made tremendous progress in reducing poverty in the last fifty years, supported by international cooperation and more open societies and economies. However, in recent years, nationalist and populist movements as well as geopolitical fractures have hindered multilateralism, ...
Feb
10
2022
12:00—1:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
January 26, 2022
Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from climate change are urgent global concerns. These issues are inter...