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Blog Post
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...
Apr
19
2022
9:00—10:15 AM ET (US & Canada) / 2 - 3:15pm British Summer Time (BST) / 4 – 5:15pm Eastern Africa Time (EAT) / 6 - 7:15pm Pakistan Standard Time (PKT)
April 19, 2022
International financial organizations (IFIs) and country governments have an important opportunity to ensure health taxes move forward more rapidly. Join CGD for a conversation on how the IMF and World Bank can build on their track record in tobacco, alcoholic, and sugary beverage taxes to help low-...
Blog Post
August 16, 2021
UNICEF’s Executive Director, Henrietta Fore, recently announced that she will step down from her position. With a change in leadership imminent, we consider the organization’s dual imperative: to protect children during humanitarian crises - including the current COVID-19 crisis-, and to shift from ...
Blog Post
July 20, 2021
In light of this current global health challenge, the Center for Global Development (CGD) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) have launched a series of events to strengthen the understanding and ties between German and US policy makers, experts, and civil society organizations. The fi...
Mar
3
2020
4:00—5:00 PM ET
February 20, 2020
Please join CGD’s Executive Vice President, Amanda Glassman, in conversation with UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director, Grete Faremo. UNOPS provide infrastructure and procurement services to partners to run peace and security, humanitarian, and develo...
Feb
28
2018
8:30—1:00 PM
February 12, 2018
In collaboration with the Salud Mesoamerica Initiative (SMI), CGD is pleased to invite you to a two-day conference highlighting lessons learned from SMI and how SMI’s experience can inform other programs in the future of healthcare. CGD has worked on results-based financing for years. From ana...
Blog Post
December 14, 2017
What's going to happen in the world of development in 2018? Will we finally understand how to deal equitably with refugees and migrants? Or how technological progress can work for developing countries? Or what the impact of year two of the Trump Administration will be? Today’s podcast, our...
Blog Post
September 20, 2017
Global health policy enthusiasts will be excited to see that WHO has recently published a draft Concept Note on the 2019-2023 Programme of Work under the stewardship of its new Director-General. We see two glaring missed opportunities: 1) more centrality to universal health coverage (...