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December 21, 2022
If economists are the ‘dismal scientists’ always harping on about limited resources, evaluators are often considered the ‘pessimist scientists’ who only see the half-empty glass, rather than the half-full one. The end of the year is, however, a perfect time to break with that tradition. It is a time...
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December 15, 2022
Dr. Yi-Chun Lo of Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control and National Taiwan University Hospital joins Javier Guzman to discuss Taiwan’s COVID-19 experience and broader pandemic preparedness and response efforts. Together, they discuss the lessons Taiwan learned from previous outbreaks like SARS, succ...
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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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November 17, 2022
How does public health surveillance work, and how can it be done better? Amanda Glassman tackles these questions with Dr. Oliver Morgan of the WHO and Dr. Theo Vos of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Together, they examine the successes and limitations of public health surveillance d...
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November 01, 2022
One of the single biggest challenges in achieving educational reform is aligning all the different actors towards the goals of the reform. Girls’ education is no exception. Rwanda has achieved considerable gains in girls’ education in recent years through exactly such an alignment, with girls now ou...
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October 31, 2022
Many premature deaths from non-communicable diseases can be prevented if countries enact forceful measures to reduce the risk of their citizens falling prey to these diseases. Making it more expensive to consume tobacco, health-harming alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages is key to governments ach...