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Blog Post
June 10, 2022
Why do so few studies measure maternal mental health in the context of ECD interventions? First, researchers focused on early childhood may not have a familiarity with the best instruments for measuring maternal mental health. Second, studies focused on ECD may have so much of their limited survey t...
Blog Post
June 06, 2022
This blog post argues that higher health spending is unlikely to be sustained because of the pandemic’s adverse impact on revenues, other spending pressures, and the resulting deteriorating fiscal position of LLMICs. This suggests that countries will need to undertake policy actions to create additi...
Blog Post
May 26, 2022
Yesterday at the annual World Health Assembly in Geneva, member states passed a resolution tabled by the Argentina, Peru, and the UK that aims to strengthen clinical trials to improve public health. As COVID-19 has made abundantly clear, the evidence generated by high-quality clinical trials is esse...
Blog Post
May 12, 2022
Girls today are getting more education than ever before. But many girls are still being left behind. How can societies ensure they go the last mile when it comes to guaranteeing all girls have access to primary school, or the last hundred miles when it comes to quality education and access to second...
Blog Post
May 09, 2022
Since the start of the 20th century, global average life expectancy has risen from 32 to 72 years. The introduction of antimicrobials—such as antibiotics—to treat infections, combined with vaccines and improved infection control, helped significantly reduce the risks from infectious diseases, which ...
Blog Post
April 28, 2022
In the past two years, we have all learned that the end of a COVID-19 wave is the end of a chapter, not the end of the story. Ongoing COVID transmission means the risk of new variants of pandemic potential is ever present and vaccination remains our best defence. The primary near-term challenges for...