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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 08, 2022
The increasingly global nature of development challenges—including climate change, security, and pandemic response—is laying bare the reality that global solutions are needed, and that the traditional model of development as resources flowing from “North” to “South” is not only insufficient for meet...
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November 04, 2022
Earlier this month, new Swedish Prime Minister (PM) Ulf Kristersson presented his center-right government, made up of his Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals. Their coalition agreement was negotiated with the right-wing Swedish Democrats (SD), the second largest party after Sept...
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October 13, 2022
On this episode of Pandemic Proof, Dr. Ayoade Alakija, the World Health Organization’s Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and co-chair of the African Union’s African Vaccine Delivery Alliance, joins Javier Guzman to discuss global cooperation during health emergencies...
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October 06, 2022
Despite alleged “lessons learned” from the COVID-19 pandemic about the need for early containment, getting the messaging right, and a swift rollout of diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics, we have seen the same blunders yet again in the monkeypox response, highlighting the inequities in the syste...
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September 28, 2022
Development agencies are operating in an increasingly complex development landscape, defined by a “perfect long storm” of interconnected challenges. In this context, agencies will face tough choices related to how, where, and on what to spend limited development resources, as well as questions about...
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September 26, 2022
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global problem. Today, drug resistant infections kill an estimated 1.27 million people per year, and low- and middle-income countries bear the brunt of AMR-related deaths and illness. Changing how we buy antimicrobials can help solve the problem.