How Gavi 6.0 Can Take a Bigger Leap

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 he...

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A Lean World Health Organization for the Global Good

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 stre...

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Celebrating Ten Years of the international Decision Support Initiative

Over the last decade, iDSI has partnered with countries to develop evidence-informed priority-setting institutions and processes. Read our blog for a summary of key successes, challenges, and lessons ...

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Gavi and the Global Fund Replenishments: Donors Must Demand Real Reform

In the midst of a global health funding crisis, Gavi and the Global Fund are seeking substantial replenishments: $9 billion over five years and $18 billion over three years, respectively (Figure 1).…

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Gavi and the Global Fund Replenishments: Donors Must Demand Real Reform

In the midst of a global health funding crisis, Gavi and the Global Fund are seeking substantial replenishments: $9 billion over five years and $18 billion over three years, respectively (Figure 1). B...

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Gavi and the Global Fund Replenishments: Donors Must Demand Real Reform

In the midst of a global health funding crisis, Gavi and the Global Fund are seeking substantial replenishments: $9 billion over five years and $18 billion over three years, respectively (Figure 1). B...

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Cigarette taxation and socioeconomic inequalities in under-5 mortality across 94 low-income and middle-income countries: a longitudinal ecological study

High cigarette taxes are associated with a large decrease in absolute inequality in child mortality in LMICs. These findings support raising cigarette taxes to the WHO-recommended 75% or more of the r...

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Tuberculosis Doesn’t Respect Borders—US Aid Cuts Could Fuel a Global Health Crisis

Reducing access to vital treatments against drug-resistant TB will likely pose huge risks for everyone, including Americans. The 90-day freeze on most aid while this assessment is carried out causes r...

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26 Countries Are Most Vulnerable to US Global Health Aid Cuts. Can Other Funders Bridge the Gap?

In this blog, we conceptualise this as a health system shock, present a back-of-the-envelope assessment of LMICs that are most exposed, and discuss possibilities for short-term policy responses from o...

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Achieving Value for Money in Global Development: Six Recommendations for the FCDO

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…

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Which Countries Are Most Exposed to US Aid Cuts; And What Other Providers Can Do

While it is still unclear how long the current freeze on US foreign aid will last, and when and where it might resume, it seems the US, under the second Trump administration, may be ready to abandon i...

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Decoupling “Stop Work” Orders from “Stop Basic Care”: How New Aid Models Can Protect Countries from Unreliable External Financing

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 Januar...

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Changing Course to a Good-Faith Aid Review: How Four Principles Could Advance the American Interest and Save Lives

Making the case for how to conduct a good-faith, smart aid review in service of the administration’s goals and the American people.

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Trump’s Election Gives the UK a Clear Global Health Mission: Champion Family Planning and Reproductive Rights

The US role in global health appears increasingly uncertain as President-elect Trump prepares to enter the White House. While his previous term provides clues about future directions, evolving dynamic...

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Trump’s Election Gives the UK a Clear Global Health Mission: Champion Family Planning and Reproductive Rights

The US role in global health appears increasingly uncertain as President-elect Trump prepares to enter the White House. While his previous term provides clues about future directions, evolving dynamic...

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Money Talks: The Lusaka Agenda Financing Alignment Indicators

Just over a year ago, the Future of Global Health Initiatives process concluded with the publication of the Lusaka Agenda, which recognized that the current global health financing architecture needs ...

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Pandemic Proof: Funding the WHO for Pandemic Preparedness

Catharina Boehme, Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Governance at the WHO, joins guest-host Pete Baker to discuss the outcomes of the WHO Investment Round and the opportunities and...

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The Fast and Furious Journey of Adaptive Health Technology Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

In a world of limited resources and rising health care demand, decision-makers are permanently urged to make explicit, evidence-based decisions about which services or health technologies to fund, for...

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The Lusaka Agenda Tracker: What Gets Measured Gets Done

Financial support for health in low- and middle-income countries has come under renewed criticism in recent years by policymakers and experts, critiquing that it often fragments health systems, underm...

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The Tenth Recipient Test

One of the things that makes development assistance less effective than it might be is fragmentation: many donors providing small amount of assistance to a country, each mission head demanding their p...

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