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December 13, 2022
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) health accounts team launched its much-awaited annual Global Health Expenditure Report on December 8, 2022. The report is a major effort of not only the WHO team, but also of the countries that submitted their valuable data. This blog summarizes a few of my refl...
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December 07, 2022
How exactly should China's policymakers wade through competing models and guidance as it looks to ease its anti-COVID measures? This blog looks at how they should use models, using the case of the state of Hawaii; in sum, recommending that China’s National Health Commission take a thoughtful approac...
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December 20, 2012
The global health legacy of 2012 will be twofold, a year of both increased commitments to health and flat lining budgets. Just look at this past summer: world leaders made a call to end preventable child deaths, the London Summit on Family Planning has resulted in $2.6 billion of commitments, and th...
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November 19, 2012
This is a joint post with Alex Ezeh.
Maybe you missed it–but this past Sunday, November 18, was African Statistics Day.
It’s the 12th celebration of the day, and a good time to note that substantial gaps remain in the availability and quality of data on basic indicators of human well-b...