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Blog Post
May 13, 2024
The headline statistic on global lead poisoning shocks the conscience: one in three children globally has elevated blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per deciliter. The health and welfare harms associated with this burden are staggering, estimated to cause upwards of 1.6 millions deaths annually a...
POLICY PAPERS
May 13, 2024
As global lead poisoning receives more international attention, the challenge of identifying and implementing appropriate lead exposure measurement approaches for different purposes—including the monitoring, screening, and research required to prevent exposure, as well as clinical management in alre...
Apr
15
2024
HYBRID
Washington, DC
9:30—10:45 AM ET / 2:30-3:45PM BST
April 01, 2024
USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health Dr. Atul Gawande will share his perspective on the scope and challenge of global lead poisoning as well as highlight USAID’s commitment to accelerating the international response. Then CGD Senior Fellow Rachel Silverman Bonnifield will facilitate a pan...
Blog Post
February 26, 2024
As policymakers and financiers set their priorities for 2024, we gathered a group of experts who've been working on pandemics and pandemic financing from a range of perspectives including epidemiology, economics, insurance, policy, and advocacy. The purpose of our event was to map out the next steps...
Feb
7
2024
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:00 AM ET / 3:00-4:00 PM GMT
January 16, 2024
In this webinar, experts will review the ongoing problem of gaps in the global pandemic risk financing architecture in the aftermath of the G20 Pandemic Financing report and G7 Nagasaki Health Ministers’ Communiqué, and propose specific policy recommendations for world leaders and multilateral and b...
Blog Post
October 17, 2023
There’s not a lot of low-hanging fruit in global development. On the issues that matter most, from preventing the next pandemic to expanding migration opportunities, and financing climate adaptation, even minor progress tends to require big financial commitments and often faces deep political resist...
Blog Post
June 13, 2023
This Thursday, the Center for Global Development is hosting a half-day event—Get the Lead Out—to shine a much-needed spotlight on the far-reaching social and economic consequences of lead poisoning. Lead is an insidious toxin. In most cases, it has no overt, easily detectable symptoms when ingested—...