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WORKING PAPER
September 15, 2025
Noncommunicable diseases—driven by tobacco use, harmful alcohol consumption, and high-sugar diets—account for over 70 percent of global deaths and impose annual economic losses exceeding US $514 billion. Excise taxes on these health-harming products offer a dual benefit of reducing consumption and r...
WORKING PAPER
September 10, 2025
The absence of a coordinated global financing mechanism during COVID-19 deepened inequities and economic losses. A pre-approved “Day Zero Financing” liquidity line backed by multilateral banks and donors could provide a cost-effective mechanism to ensure faster, fairer access to vaccines, tests, and...
WORKING PAPER
August 25, 2025
Triggers—criteria that activate alerts, financing, or response measures—are central to pandemic decision-making but remain unevenly applied and often implicit. A new framework could guide high-quality trigger design in pandemic financing and response, improving their effectiveness, reliability, and ...
CGD NOTE
August 13, 2025
The global response to COVID-19 saw rapid vaccine development and ambitious efforts like COVAX to ensure equitable access, but national self-interest ultimately prevailed, leaving many countries without timely supplies and sparking calls to diversify vaccine manufacturing. While numerous fragmented ...
POLICY PAPER
July 29, 2025
Despite decades of effort, nutrition remains poorly integrated into health systems and universal health coverage, often sidelined in both policy and financing. This paper explores how to better deliver nutrition-specific interventions by comparing vertical (targeted but fragmented), horizontal (syst...
BRIEF
July 18, 2025
Gavi’s board and leadership must stretch scarce resources to fulfill a challenging double mandate: (1) stabilizing immunization outcomes and fiscal solvency in Gavi-eligible countries facing severe health financing shocks; and (2) laying the groundwork for durable transformation via a radically simp...
BRIEF
July 10, 2025
In this brief—the first in the Tough Times, Tough Choices series that will target the major global health and development institutions and their funders—we propose a different approach: radically streamlining the WHO to fulfil its unique global functions. Instead of muddling through with budget cuts...
