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November 15, 2023
One of the most salient lessons from the pandemic is the need to diversify manufacturing capabilities and bolster supply resilience to avoid a repeat of the slow and inequitable vaccine roll out in African countries. To turn this lesson into action, the Gavi Secretariat is rapidly advancing plans fo...
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November 13, 2023
Schools play many roles in society, but most people believe that they should at least help children to master fundamental skills—like literacy and numeracy—and make sure that children are safe in their care. Unfortunately, far too often, children are neither safe, nor learning. Many children experie...
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October 17, 2023
There’s not a lot of low-hanging fruit in global development. On the issues that matter most, from preventing the next pandemic to expanding migration opportunities, and financing climate adaptation, even minor progress tends to require big financial commitments and often faces deep political resist...
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October 16, 2023
Children and adolescents worldwide are exposed to unacceptably high levels of school-related violence. We know this thanks to an increasing number of surveys that ask about school-related violence. However, it can be hard to tell which countries have data on which time periods, which age groups, and...
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October 16, 2023
Schools should provide a safe and nurturing environment where children are able to learn and thrive. But, in a terrifying perversion of the role school should play in a child’s life, children are often harmed and abused in and around schools by teachers, other school staff, and by fellow students. N...
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September 21, 2023
The politics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has changed substantially since we launched the first CGD working group on AMR in 2007. There is now much more awareness about the need to act, even if global solutions have not yet been implemented. Countries including the UK, Canada, and Japan have an...
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August 03, 2023
On August 1, 2023, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken launched the new Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the Acheson Auditorium in the State Department. Reorganizing government is unglamorous and rife with political hazards, but it has the potential to build a faster and better...