The new year has hardly begun, but fears of a looming recession persist. Pandemic-era increases in health spending are unlikely to continue in low- and middle-income countries. Growing fiscal pressures­—such as high debt, increasing interest rates, and declining foreign aid and revenues—bode ominous...

On this episode of Pandemic Proof from CGD, Dr. Boghuma Titanji, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, joins Javier Guzman to reflect on the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and response. Together they discuss the parallels between monkeypox and previous infectious di...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is set for a second term as Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is the sole candidate for a procedural leadership vote at the World Health Assembly (WHA) next week and has the full support of the WHO’s executive board.

In many low- and middle-income countries, the COVID-19 pandemic is limiting access to antenatal care and posing considerable challenges to global efforts to eliminate congenital syphilis. A review of the present WHO strategy to eliminate congenital syphilis is urgently neede...

The unilateral ultimatum issued by President Donald Trump to the World Health Organization—"reform or else” in 30 days—raises the real possibility of a WHO without funds or governance participation from the United States. What would that mean in practice?

The coronavirus is spreading and for the first time in history virtually all people on earth are faced with the same, imminent common threat. With multifold stories of individual suffering and an unprecedented global lockdown, there is an intensifying call for an internationally coordinated response...

Since Monday, leading health officials from around the world have been meeting in Geneva, Switzerland for the 72nd World Health Assembly. 

We here at CGD tend to be critical of international agencies like WHO or the UNDP for establishing targets or guidelines without sufficient consideration of the impacts, for good and ill, of those guidelines in the affected countries. Such guidelines often apply standards more appropriate ...