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CGD NOTES
April 08, 2024
This note presents the concept of Day Zero Financing, a proposed solution for how the world should respond to future pandemics. It begins with a definition of Day Zero Financing, emphasizing its importance and how it operates. The discussion then covers 10 essential aspects of the concept, including...
CGD NOTES
March 28, 2024
Over the past two decades, China has become a distinctive and increasingly important donor of development assistance for health (DAH). However, little is known about what factors influence China’s priority-setting for DAH. In this study, we provide an updated analysis of trends in the priorities of ...
CGD NOTES
August 18, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for COVID-19 on May 5 and for mpox on May 11, 2023. Throughout its use, the meaning of the PHEIC has been muddled. We call for a new, objective epidemic scale that better communicates...
CGD NOTES
August 09, 2023
Assessment of health system performance is a complex task, especially amid major political change, structural reforms, and a global pandemic. The Health Policy paper by Felicia Marie Knaul and colleagues in The Lancet identifies many challenges to improving the performance of the Mexican health syst...
CGD NOTES
June 06, 2023
This proposed Resource Allocation Framework may inform country-level allocation decisions by the Pandemic Fund for its first call for proposals supporting surveillance, laboratories, and human resources. This framework incorporates three measures of pandemic risk and one index of need for surveillan...
CGD NOTES
February 28, 2023
The policy discussions about PPR are noteworthy. But the global public sector is underinvesting in pandemic response. This creates the illusion of safety without the finance or planning in place to provide it. We cannot delay planning for response financing when the next pandemic hits, by which time...
CGD NOTES
December 14, 2022
Ensuring rapid and equitable access to effective oral COVID-19 therapies is essential to reducing health disparities from COVID-19 and building a better response system for future epidemics and pandemics. A multipronged strategy for medical countermeasures must include antivirals, monoclonal antibod...
CGD NOTES
December 14, 2022
Almost a year after two oral antiviral treatments received emergency use authorization, demand is extremely low. In this note, we argue that governments and their donor partners should use data and evidence to consider the economic and clinical rationale for registering, financing, purchasing, and d...
CGD NOTES
May 11, 2022
This note takes a quick look at the lessons learned and the existing landscape of MCM manufacturing in the context of the current pandemic response and suggests eight areas for action along with near-term recommendations to the global community to both prepare and respond to future pandemic risks.