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Blog Post
May 31, 2024
Well, that was an eventful week. We’re one week into the UK General Election campaign, which has so far been conducted with all the dignity of a Rooney family wedding. We’ve had internecine fighting, a spate of retirements, MPs mocking their own policy platforms and what can only be described as a s...
Blog Post
May 28, 2024
Over the last 10 years, the international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) has supported countries across Africa and Asia to develop national priority-setting processes. This month, in partnership with 15 iDSI authors, we have published a review of the successes, challenges, and lessons learned du...
Blog Post
May 24, 2024
This has been a week of extremes for me: I spent the first part of the week basking in sunshine in Barcelona for a (very good) conference, meeting people from around the world working on interesting problems, eating incredibly good food and enjoying one of the more walkable cities I’ve visited. And ...
Blog Post
May 23, 2024
Dr. Stephanie Psaki, US Global Health Security Coordinator, joins host Javier Guzman to discuss the changes made across the US government since the pandemic, her priorities as Coordinator, and US ambitions for the pandemic agreement negotiations in the run-up to the World Health Assembly later this ...
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May 17, 2024
It was a long, hard slog, and there have been a number of setbacks (not least days on end of merciless grey skies and rain), but London has finally settled into a real, actual summer. That means two things: first, everyone is in a ridiculously good mood. We get three weeks of sunshine a year, and it...
Blog Post
May 10, 2024
It was hit-and-miss for a while—there were a good few weeks when I thought the UK would just completely forego spring and summer and transition directly from winter into autumn—but there are tentative signs of summer in London. London in the summer is a bit like a bird that spends 11 months of the y...
May
14
2024
IN PERSON
Washington, DC
8:30—1:30 PM ET
May 05, 2024
This in-person seminar will convene an array of experts to discuss the governance and financing of initiatives relating to pandemic preparedness and response. In particular, the event will focus on the roles of the European Union and the United States.
Blog Post
May 06, 2024
MEL practitioners—and knowledge producers more generally—should adopt an approach that is attuned to a realistic model of the stages of the policy process and be ready to seize windows of opportunity to apply evidence. This may require navigating competing demands, recognizing tradeoffs, and making ...
Blog Post
May 03, 2024
One of the things I missed last week was Jishnu Das’s excellent, heartfelt piece about the state of development economics. But he’s not talking about causal identification or taking potshots in the war on randomization, but about the deeper values that he suggests have gone missing from the discipli...
May
8
2024
IN PERSON
3:30—4:30 AM ET / 14:30 – 15:30 (GMT +7)
May 01, 2024
Join the Center for Global Development for an interactive workshop at the Priorities 2024 Conference, to explore the role of evidence-informed priority-setting (EIPS) in health decision-making. The session marks the launch of a special issue of Health Systems & Reform, "Building Institutions for Pri...