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BRIEF
March 27, 2025
African health systems are at a crossroads, grappling with systemic challenges including workforce shortages, underfunded infrastructure, and climate-driven health burdens. Volatile financing—driven by unpredictable donor commitments and competing global priorities—has left countries vulnerable to d...
Blog Post
February 19, 2025
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...
CGD NOTE
February 07, 2025
The political economy of global health financing is increasingly driven by fiscal constraints, geopolitical instability, and shifting power dynamics. The COVID-19 pandemic stalled or reversed health gains, and countries and donors now face tightening budgets and rising debt repayments, threatening t...
Blog Post
February 03, 2025
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...
WORKING PAPER
January 29, 2025
This study estimates the global inpatient healthcare costs attributable to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and projects future expenditures across different scenarios. It finds that AMR accounts for 25.4 million hospital admissions annually, resulting in $66.4 billion in excess healthcare costs, with...
Blog Post
November 05, 2024
The global health landscape is more fragmented than ever. A growing number of organizations and initiatives has created an overly complex system for health financing that is overburdening countries. Further, the system is proving increasingly unsustainable amidst constrained budgets that are unable ...
CGD NOTE
October 10, 2024
The World Health Summit (WHS) this month will convene global health leaders to discuss strategies for “Building Trust for a Healthier World.” In this paper we explore the link between trust and access to evidence in global health and offer recommendations for action for global health leaders.
