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Blog Post
Pandemic Proof: Learning from COVID-19 in Taiwan
December 15, 2022
Dr. Yi-Chun Lo of Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control and National Taiwan University Hospital joins Javier Guzman to discuss Taiwan’s COVID-19 experience and broader pandemic preparedness and response efforts. Together, they discuss the lessons Taiwan learned from previous outbreaks like SARS, succ...
Op-Ed
Africa Should Bargain Hard for COVID Vaccine Equity: Lessons from Indonesia during Avian Flu
December 06, 2021
Excuses easily come out of the human mouth. Let us please transfer all the energy spent on the manufacturing of excuses to create ideas for how we’ll get vaccines to Africa. If Africa can’t get the vaccines it needs, perhaps Africa should take a play from the Indonesian playbook during the 2007 avia...
Blog Post
COVID-19 Financing and Development Pathways: Initial Reflections from the Asian Development Bank
April 22, 2021
COVID-19 and the economic crisis it unleashed have spurred unprecedented action from governments and international institutions. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) like the Asian Development Bank (ADB) swiftly committed resources to COVID-19 response and recovery efforts in 2020 and 2021, includi...
Blog Post
The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Emerging Findings from Kenya, the Philippines, South Africa, and Uganda
March 30, 2021
Much of the initial COVID response focused on limiting cases and deaths, without sufficient attention to the broader indirect impacts. A new CGD series investigates.
WORKING PAPERS
Health Systems Impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines
Diana Beatriz S. Bayani
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Soon Guan Tan
March 30, 2021
This paper presents a preliminary review on the collateral health systems impact of COVID-19 in the Philippines through review of academic and grey literature, supplemented by a qualitative survey.
Blog Post
The Hidden Health Cost of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Valerie Gilbert Ulep et al.
March 04, 2021
In a recent blog, we asked “what do we really know about COVID-19’s impact on essential health services?” In that blog, our focus was primarily on what international partners were doing to monitor the effects of COVID-19 on essential health services. What we didn’t highlight is the increasingly deta...
Blog Post
Turning the Grand Bargain Upside Down: Views from Indonesia
February 11, 2021
Past humanitarian reform agendas have continually emphasised the need for humanitarian response to be locally owned. But for two decades, attempts to systematically elevate the representation, participation, and power of local actors have fallen short; donor governments still have an incentive to ch...