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August 21, 2020
While COVID-19 has sparked a global crisis, the developing countries hit hardest are in Latin America. If conditions worsen, Latin America could face a severe financial crisis. To stop this from happening, policymakers, donors, researchers, and multilateral organizations must cooperate to find and e...
Aug
6
2020
11:30—12:30 PM ET
August 02, 2020
Despite early and aggressive lockdown measures, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the country’s population, health system, and economy. Peru has one of the highest number of cases in Latin America and the world, with no sign yet of decline, and the economic outlook for the country is grim with the ...
Press Release
July 07, 2020
“As has now been shown in sharp relief, the WHO lacks the necessary funding and full capabilities needed to effectively control the global spread of infectious diseases. Failures and weaknesses throughout the international system, including WHO but also national governments who design multilateral i...
Jul
24
2020
12:00—1:00 PM ET
June 29, 2020
Join the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health for an important webinar focused on understanding how well available information on the cost-effectiveness of health interventions aligns with diseases and conditions that contribute the greatest global burden. We will explore where the ...
Blog Post
June 22, 2020
A simple way to guarantee an adequate flow of long-run, sustained funding for health surveillance and disease control, and to prepare for the next novel virus in the world’s poor countries, is to create an endowment dedicated to that purpose. A $10 billion endowment could generate income of $500 mil...
Jun
5
2020
10:00—10:00 AM ET
June 05, 2020
Director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), John Nkengasong, joins CGD President Masood Ahmed and CGD Executive Vice President Amanda Glassman to discuss how his organization is helping member states to combat COVID-19. They will discuss the efforts to trace, track, a...