Despite alleged “lessons learned” from the COVID-19 pandemic about the need for early containment, getting the messaging right, and a swift rollout of diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics, we have seen the same blunders yet again in the monkeypox response, highlighting the inequities in the syste...

So far, 16 donors have made pledges the Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, totaling $1.4 billions. But this time next year, what will the new fund have accomplished? 

If there remains a need, and a clinical and economic rationale, for COVID-19 vaccination, why is vaccine inequity so persistent over time?

Get ready for Pandemic Proof, a new podcast from the Center for Global Development. Hosted by CGD's Amanda Glassman and Javier Guzman and featuring guests from around the world, Pandemic Proof will confront weaknesses in the global architecture for pandemic preparedness and response, and explore pol...

Despite this competitive landscape, there is an opportunity to develop a comprehensive and articulate G7 response on global health including pandemic preparedness and response. While some note the multiple asks circulating from ACT-A, the Global Fund, WHO, the new pandemic financial intermediary fun...

Monkeypox has been around for decades, but it has been low priority for global and public health, despite a notable reemergence of the disease in West and Central Africa in 2017. Now, as the virus reaches 35 countries outside the West and Central African regions, the disease’s current dynamics are s...