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Blog Post
May 31, 2022
How have the ways in which political parties think about and frame global challenges to the electorate changed over the last three decades, as both the challenges and the political climate have shifted? One way to answer this question is to look at their election manifestos. Though the way in which ...
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 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 ...
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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...
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April 07, 2022
Heightened food and energy prices are exacerbating humanitarian crises around the world. Resources and attention are being diverted to Ukraine, rather than expanded. Here, we identify existing and new countries at risk, and look at the major donors’ resources to respond to those needs. Policymakers...