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Blog Post
January 15, 2025
The US role in global health appears increasingly uncertain as President-elect Trump prepares to enter the White House. While his previous term provides clues about future directions, evolving dynamics with Capitol Hill and the overall budget picture will also shape the US approach. Still, if past i...
Blog Post
November 19, 2024
A new CGD note published today explores the financial performance of big tobacco companies, alongside alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industries, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; we find that financial results have been strong, especially for tobacco companies, and that the argumen...
Blog Post
October 21, 2024
What if there was a policy that could both save lives and raise revenue to strengthen health systems and other social sectors? The high-level Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health, co-chaired by Mike Bloomberg, Mia Amor Mottley, and Larry Summers, of which CGD is secretariat, found that raising hea...
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...
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...
External Work
September 27, 2024
Every year, disease linked to the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and sugary beverages kill more than 10 million people worldwide, with economic costs of more than US$4 trillion. Research commissioned by the Task Force shows if all countries increased their excise taxes enough to raise the price of...
Press Release
September 27, 2024
The Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health today released a new report, “Health Taxes: A Compelling Policy for the Crises of Today,” showing that if all countries increased their excise taxes to raise prices of tobacco, alcohol and sugary beverages by 50%, it would generate US$3.7 trillion in additi...
CGD NOTES
September 05, 2024
Access to effective antimicrobials is crucial to any healthcare system, but in many countries, necessary antimicrobials are not available to patients because they have not been registered and/ or introduced. This introduction barrier is particularly prevalent in low- and middle-income countries (LMI...
Blog Post
July 17, 2024
With the interplay between the COVID-19 pandemic; wars in Ukraine, Africa, and the Middle East; and energy, climate, and cost-of-living crises, we are living through a polycrisis, where “disparate crises interact such that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part.” In the face this, count...