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Medical doctors regularly warn their patients about unhealthy foods and behaviors. But who is going to warn the public about unhealthy public policies and government spending? The quick answer is that other doctors (the kind with PhDs not MDs), along with qualified policy analysts of all kinds, can...

Center for Global Development (CGD) and the Africa Resource Centre (ARC) have convened a working group to bring together experts and policymakers from the health financing and supply chain fields to identify and address the most pressing issues stemming from poor supply chain financing.

In this blog, we conceptualise this as a health system shock, present a back-of-the-envelope assessment of LMICs that are most exposed, and discuss possibilities for short-term policy responses from other funders and LMIC governments, drawing lessons from the rapid global response to COVID-19.

As part of a wave of public reviews and consultations, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has issued a call for inputs on reforming how it thinks about the value for money (VFM) of its spending. In its earlier incarnation, the Department for International Development (DfID) w...

The Trump administration’s stop-work order highlights precisely why we need a new model for health aid—one in which domestic financing supports the highest priority, core health services. On 20 January, the US State Department ordered an immediate pause on (nearly) all foreign aid spending. The “sto...

Check out Pete Baker's insights on the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, as quoted in Devex.

Check out Pete Baker's insights on the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, as quoted in Business Insider.

Check out Pete Baker's insights on the impact of the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, as quoted in SciDevNet.

Check out Pete Baker's insights on the Trump administration's withdrawal from the WHO, as referenced in The Telegraph.