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Dec
7
2015
1:30—2:30 PM
November 24, 2015
Hospitals are central to building and maintaining healthy populations around the world. They serve as the first point of care for many, offer access to specialized care, act as loci for medical education and research, and influence standards for national health systems at large. Yet despite their ce...
Oct
21
2015
3:00—4:30 PM
October 07, 2015
The slow global response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa suggests that important gaps exist in donor financing for key global functions, such as strengthening of outbreak preparedness and support for research and development (R&D) to fight the diseases of poverty. What do we know about how mu...
Jun
18
2015
2:00—3:30 PM
June 04, 2015
In Epic Measures: One Doctor, Seven Billion Patients, journalist Jeremy Smith chronicles how the Global Burden of Disease study came into being—and what it can tell us already.
In this talk, Smith shared highlights from the true story of the 20-year, 500-scientist, $100-million moonshot ...
Jun
16
2015
9:30—1:00 PM
June 04, 2015
Increasingly, policies and programs that seek to ‘empower women economically’ are part of public and private sector agencies’ agendas; however, few have been rigorously evaluated. This event was in response to these agencies’ expressed need to learn which measures and evaluat...
May
14
2015
12:00—1:30 PM
May 07, 2015
Between 1996 and 2012, 28 Sub-Saharan African countries benefited from $52 billion in debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, launched by the World Bank and IMF. One of the initiative’s core objectives was to reduce poverty through improvements in health. The H...