📣 New @cgdev.org Tough Times, Tough Choices brief The #GlobalFund faces shrinking donor support and increasing demands for reform. Read our recommendations on how the Fund can meet the moment: www.cgdev.org/publication/... with @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & @peterbaker17.bsky.social

A Radically Simplified Global Fund to Meet the Moment

This brief—the latest in our Tough Times, Tough Choices series—examines the Global Fund’s current approach to resource allocation and the implications of those choices in today’s funding environment. ...

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New @cgdev.org blog w Jocilyn Estes on the US bilateral GH compacts There's a lot we still don't know... and the risks of operationalizing a reconfigured approach (even if long overdue) at unprecedented speed & scale are real--with lives & public health gains at stake www.cgdev.org/blog/what-we...

What We Know—and Don’t Know—About the Trump Administration’s Global Health Agreements

The State Department has announced an initial set of bilateral health cooperation agreements, signing eight memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with governments in sub-Saharan Africa. These compacts a...

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Child mortality is expected to rise to 4.8m deaths in 2025, an increase of 200,000 preventable deaths compared to 2024. Read @jmadankeller.bsky.social and Rosie Eldridge’s recap of Gavi’s pledging summit in a CNN article on increased child deaths due to aid cuts: https://go.cgdev.org/3XHIuny

Child deaths projected to rise for first time this century, as aid cuts reverse decades of progress | CNN

The number of children who die before age 5 is expected to rise for the first time this century, amid sweeping cuts to global health funding by high-income countries, according to a new report from th...

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New @cgdev.org piece w @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social on charting PEPFAR’s next chapter We propose a three-track framework, w some ideas on how to operationalize this evolution, with a healthy dose of caution on need for a prudent approach to safeguard PEPFAR's legacy

Rachel Bonnifield@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social · 9mo ago

PEPFAR is at a great American success story at a crossroads. The Trump Administration's Global Health Strategy offers a broadly reasonable blueprint for PEPFAR's next chapter: more country ownership, deliverty by national governments, and spending cuts. 1/x

📣Excited to share new @cgdev.org research w co-conspirators @clemencelanders.bsky.social & Rowan Rockafellow exploring an alternative funding path for the Global Fund in a shrinking aid landscape Full disclosure, it's a bit wonky🤓 so hang on for the ride Summary blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/weather...

Weathering the Donor Downturn: The Case for a New Financial Model for the Global Fund

The Global Fund is heading into its replenishment with a lofty fundraising goal: $18 billion for the next three years (2026–2028). But in today’s world of shrinking aid budgets, that target might alre...

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Center for Global Development@cgdev.org · 9mo ago

With major donors scaling back aid, the Global Fund’s $18B target for 2026–2028 looks out of reach. @jmadankeller.bsky.social & @clemencelanders.bsky.social propose a rethink of the Global Fund’s donor-dependent model. Learn more about the mixed grant & loan approach: https://go.cgdev.org/4odMAyJ

ICYMI: New @cgdev.org‬ blog with Witold Więcek on a high-impact opportunity in global health that's especially relevant amid budget constraints: optimizing vaccine regimens & doses Thanks to Alex Tabarrok for coverage in @marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

More From Less: Optimizing Vaccine Doses - Marginal REVOLUTION

During COVID, I argued strongly that we should cut the Moderna dose in order to expand supply. In a paper co-authored with Witold Więcek, Michael Kremer and others, we showed that a half dose of Moder...

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Center for Global Development@cgdev.org · 9mo ago

Newly-approved vaccines are safe and effective, but are they reaching as many people, saving as many lives, and stretching budgets as far as possible? 💉 Witold Więcek & @jmadankeller.bsky.social argue that optimizing vaccine doses is a high-impact opportunity ⬇️ https://go.cgdev.org/3WZwCgt

Tomorrow! Dr. Seth Berkley joins @rglenner.bsky.social to discuss his new book, Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity. They’ll unpack the science & lessons from the global vaccine effort. There's still time to RSVP! ⬇️ https://go.cgdev.org/4qtZdb7

The World Bank Group is planning to reorganize its research functions. The results could be even uglier than the powerpoint: an end to independent research at the institution and conflicts of interest all over... New blog with @eeshani.bsky.social, link in reply.

Tmw/Thursday: Don't miss this stellar #AnnualMeetings @cgdev.org panel on solutions to the GH financing crisis @sanianishtar.bsky.social @gavi.org @jarottingen.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Mamta Murthi World Bank Hitoshi Hirata JICA & @rglenner.bsky.social www.cgdev.org/event/sustai...

Sustainable Solutions to the Global Health Financing Crisis

This event brings together leading experts and policymakers to explore feasible solutions to the current global health financing crisis. The discussion will center on how major global health and devel...

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Rachel Glennerster@rglenner.bsky.social · 10mo ago

@cgdev.org is hosting a lineup of thought-provoking events during the IMF & World Bank Annual Meetings. We hope to see you there! #CGDEvents #2025AnnualMeetings

@cgdev.org is hosting a lineup of thought-provoking events during the IMF & World Bank Annual Meetings. We hope to see you there! #CGDEvents #2025AnnualMeetings

A new PEPFAR blueprint is taking shape. If backed by real resources, it could lay the groundwork for a sustainable transition and true country ownership. @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & @jmadankeller.bsky.social unpack strategic shifts that could define PEPFAR’s next chapter: https://bit.ly/3Kvx7eT

PEPFAR’s Next Chapter: From the Ashes, a Path for Constructive US Global Health Engagement?

A new PEPFAR blueprint is beginning to take shape, offering a surprisingly strong foundation for a constructive path forward. If backed by real resources and well implemented, it could lay the groundw...

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Vaccines are one of the most powerful tools in public health. They have saved hundreds of millions of lives by preventing deadly diseases like measles, polio, and smallpox. Before vaccines, these infections were common; surviving them often meant facing severe complications or lifelong disability.

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

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✍️ New article: "The world left its fight against tuberculosis unfinished — how can we complete the job?"

With a $2.5B shortfall, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, faces tough choices.💉📉 Ahead of this week’s Board meeting, @cgdev.org experts propose five ways Gavi 6.0 can stretch resources while protecting its most impactful work: bit.ly/3IyStXX

In February, the US gov shut down the Demographic & Health Surveys. It was the only data source on maternal & child health, births, household structure in many countries – making it crucial for research. In a new article I explain why it should be rescued. ourworldindata.org/demographic-...

How do you find $2.5 B in savings when every decision has consequences for access to life-saving vaccines? With Center for Global Development colleagues, here are 2 core principles and 5 suggestions. Give it a read and let us know what you think. #gavi

Janeen Madan Keller@jmadankeller.bsky.social · last yr.

Amid a broader global health financing crisis, @gavi.org faces a $2.5B budget shortfall Read our new @cgdev.org brief on how Gavi 6.0 can take a bigger leap w @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social @peterbaker17.bsky.social @tomldrake.bsky.social & @orinlevine.bsky.social www.cgdev.org/publication/...

Amid a broader global health financing crisis, @gavi.org faces a $2.5B budget shortfall Read our new @cgdev.org brief on how Gavi 6.0 can take a bigger leap w @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social @peterbaker17.bsky.social @tomldrake.bsky.social & @orinlevine.bsky.social www.cgdev.org/publication/...

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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1st edition of our @cgdev.org series "Tough Times, Tough Choices" is hot off the press Facing budget cuts, we argue WHO's leadership must chart a path of retrenchment to a lean @who.int for the global good w/ @peterbaker17.bsky.social & @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social www.cgdev.org/publication/...

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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From coop to cave: Inside the high-tech hunt for #H5N1 and Disease X Great piece in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social by @sneweyy.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

From coop to cave: Inside the high-tech hunt for H5N1 and Disease X

The Telegraph joined scientists in Cambodia’s vibrant wet markets and vast bat caves to test revolutionary new disease surveillance tools

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#FfD4 kicks off next week against the backdrop of aid cuts & a traffic jam of replenishments among health & other concessional funds But it's clear these funds need a major overhaul. Our new @cgdev.org blog highlights 3 action items: www.cgdev.org/blog/concess... cc: @clemencelanders.bsky.social

"It’s fair to say that humanitarianism's “Great Depression” moment has come. The sudden, almost overnight loss of US Government funding has exacerbated a reality where the majority of humanitarian needs were already unfunded. Something has to give."

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"This is a part two we never thought we’d have to write." This new article by authors from @rescue.org shares three concrete actions that NGOs, governments, and donors can take to counteract the collapse in humanitarian aid funding.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort

Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

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Cutting US funding for @gavi.org which leads on global vaccination efforts is incredibly shortsighted and misguided @charlesjkenny.bsky.social & I argued why in this @cgdev.org blog 👇 www.cgdev.org/blog/why-tru...

The Trump admin's proposed solution for high US drug prices is misguided, writes @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social, @charlesjkenny.bsky.social, & @jmadankeller.bsky.social. It risks stifling drug innovation and slashing access abroad, with little benefit to US patients⬇️ www.cgdev.org/blog/market-...

The Market for Prescription Drugs Is Broken. Here’s Why Trump’s Executive Order Would Make It Worse

The US pays—by far—the highest prices for on-patent prescription drugs of any country on earth. The White House just issued an executive order purporting to fix this problem. But the proposed solution...

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US drug prices are way too high—but the Trump EO to “fix” them would make things worse for everyone. We break down the economics of reference pricing here — and explain why it’s a bad approach for the US 👇 With @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @jmadankeller.bsky.social www.cgdev.org/blog/market-...

The Market for Prescription Drugs Is Broken. Here’s Why Trump’s Executive Order Would Make It Worse

The US pays—by far—the highest prices for on-patent prescription drugs of any country on earth. The White House just issued an executive order purporting to fix this problem. But the proposed solution...

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📣New @cgdev.org blog on the latest Trump EO to curb high drug prices We breakdown why the proposed policy prescription of "reference pricing" is misguided... with a healthy dose of econ101 🤓 w/ @charlesjkenny.bsky.social & @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social www.cgdev.org/blog/market-...

The Market for Prescription Drugs Is Broken. Here’s Why Trump’s Executive Order Would Make It Worse

The US pays—by far—the highest prices for on-patent prescription drugs of any country on earth. The White House just issued an executive order purporting to fix this problem. But the proposed solution...

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🚨My latest: Trump's deportation tactics are undermining the bird flu response, outreach workers say. Detecting cases is key but farmworkers at highest risk - mainly immigrants - are afraid to leave home for care. @kffhealthnews.org / ABC kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump’s Immigration Tactics Obstruct Efforts To Avert Bird Flu Pandemic, Researchers Say - KFF Health News

Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration raids and threats have undermined these efforts, researchers say.

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In DC for spring meetings? Join me & @clemencelanders.bsky.social on Wed Apr 23 for a @cgdev.org event on how multilateral funds can evolve in the face of shrinking resources and growing needs RSVP ➡️ www.cgdev.org/event/how-do...

How Do Multilateral Funds Survive the Donor Retreat?

Multilateral concessional funds like Gavi or the World Bank’s IDA are the largest source of development finance for the world’s poorest countries. But with shrinking donor commitments, the system need...

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Center for Global Development@cgdev.org · last yr.

As stakeholders gather for this year's IMF & World Bank #SpringMeetings, CGD is hosting crucial discussions with leading global development experts, policymakers, representatives from international finance institutions, & more.🌸🌍 Explore the schedule of events & RSVP below! ⬇️ bit.ly/43HcvIn

A week ago, the Trump administration laid off thousands of people at HHS and its agencies. The cuts were so deep, and touched so much, we're still learning about the impacts. Here are a couple stories that have stood out to me. 1) @levfacher.bsky.social on the gutting of a pain-research office.

Unique pain research office eliminated in HHS purge

Pain is the most costly chronic health problem in the U.S. In latest RIFs at NIH, an entire division devoted to pain research was closed down.

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