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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...
Blog Post
April 13, 2022
Tuberculosis, once highly prevalent across Europe and North America, has largely been forgotten in the West but remains a heavy burden in low- and middle-income countries. Now, as rich countries vaccinate (and boost) their populations against COVID-19, lift restrictions, and slowly return to “normal...
Blog Post
February 02, 2022
Remember when you first heard about the lead-water crisis in Flint, Michigan? Remember your outrage that America’s most vulnerable children were exposed to a dangerous, debilitating poison? Remember your disbelief that policymakers could allow this to happen, or other Americans could look away from ...
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January 20, 2022
Last October we asked our readers to weigh in on promising opportunities for pull mechanisms to help drive high-value global health innovation. This blog highlights our interim findings, with great gratitude to the 25+ individuals and groups who took the time for a conversation.