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ebola
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Blog Post
November 03, 2016
Having tried and mostly failed to track what was going on with US Government performance and spending on Ebola, I welcome the GAO’s overview of obligations and disbursements by appropriation account and strategy pillar. Now the scope of this report appears to be narrow, so let’s hope there’s more to...
Blog Post
May 23, 2016
I set out to better understand the link between ethnic politics and the local response to Ebola, and what I found was stark. There is a clear link between the political prominence of certain areas and their incidence of Ebola: the more political elites that come from a district, the lower its suffer...
TESTIMONY
April 08, 2016
On April 7, 2016, CGD’s vice president for programs and director of global health policy Amanda Glassman testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy at a hearing examining progress made in addressing the West Africa Ebola epidemic and its s...
Blog Post
August 03, 2015
As we gear up for the 2016 election, we’re thinking critically about how the next US president can increase the impact and efficiency of America’s taxpayer-funded global health investments. The US lacks a government-wide strategy on global health engagement, and it shows—...
Jun
17
2015
6:00—7:30 PM
June 04, 2015
Rajesh Mirchandani moderated a discussion and Q&A with RYOT co-founder David Darg following the screening of three short films: Body Team 12, Baseball in the Time of Cholera, and Nepal Virtual Reality.
Darg spent the last decade as a first responder and frontline c...
