Events
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Upcoming
December 3, 2021 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Almost three decades after the highly indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative cleared $76 billion in unsustainable debts from the balance sheets of 37 countries, the sovereign debt burdens of many African countries are once again approaching concerning levels. But despite the many similarities...
December 7, 2021 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The COVID-19 pandemic is a critical care crisis. Many lives have been lost during the pandemic while countries tried to scale up ventilators and other high-cost critical care services, at times overlooking effective yet low-cost essential emergency and critical care (EECC) practices.
Past
November 30, 2021
Ineffective and inefficient registration processes impede access to lifesaving, quality-assured essential medicines. As a result of inadequate legal...
November 23, 2021
Learning outcomes in many low- and middle-income countries are poor and many of the efforts to improve these outcomes have been pilot programs which...
November 22, 2021
The Center for Global Development and the African Center for Economic Transformation are hosting a public event on the recently reformed policies...
November 19, 2021
As many countries move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there are many questions about whether to include (and if so, how?) disease...
November 10, 2021
COVID-19 will likely be a forerunner of future catastrophic pandemics, fueled by global warming and biodiversity losses, unless significant new...
November 10, 2021
Despite being the lowest contributor to global emissions, sub-Saharan Africa will be the region hit hardest by climate change, from rising...
November 9, 2021
In early 2021, CGD launched the COVID-19 Gender and Development Initiative with two objectives: increase the importance of gender equality on the...
November 5, 2021
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations have been using epidemiological and operational modelling to predict the spread of...
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