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Blog Post
December 10, 2021
To mark this year’s Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day on December 12, we’ve brought together recent work from CGD’s global health policy team to advance #HealthForAll through an elevated financing agenda. As the devastating toll of COVID-19 shows the financial and human costs of inadequate po...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Since 2018, the government of Kenya has worked on a series of policies and pilots to support the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. UHC ensures that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. As part of this eff...
CASE STUDIES
November 18, 2021
Zambia has been steadily working towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since the 1990s. Zambia's UHC ambition rests primarily on the delivery of two Health Benefits Packages (HBPs): the National Health Care Package (NHCP) and the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) Ben...
Nov
19
2021
9:00—10:15 AM Eastern time (US and Canada)
November 12, 2021
As many countries move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), there are many questions about whether to include (and if so, how?) disease programmatic areas that are heavily supported by external funding in health benefits packages (HBPs)
Oct
5
2021
11:00—12:15 PM Washington DC time
September 29, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed up to 40 million Africans into extreme poverty and the continent experienced its first recession in half a century. Global vaccination efforts have left Africa behind: less than two percent of the African population has been vaccinated compared to over 70 percent in ...
CGD NOTES
August 11, 2021
Over the past two decades, partnerships between bilateral and multilateral funders, philanthropy, national governments, and the private sector have substantially increased global access to effective malaria treatment. Nevertheless, further action on malaria case management is needed to meet global t...
Sep
1
2021
1:00—1:00 PM CET
August 03, 2021
In this session on the first day of Bruegel’s 2020 Annual Meetings we are delighted to welcome Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner for International Partnerships), Vera Songwe (Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa), Amadou Hott (Minister of Econ...
WORKING PAPERS
June 29, 2021
COVID-19 has caused significant morbidity and mortality, both directly and indirectly via the disruption to routine health services. Evidence on the indirect health impacts has largely been anecdotal or modeled, and cause/program-specific. We aimed to document the indirect health impacts in four cou...
Apr
7
2021
10:00—11:00 AM ET
April 05, 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic has setback development outcomes across the globe, Africa has felt the economic effects of the pandemic strongly. COVID-19 pushed about 30 million Africans into extreme poverty, with vulnerable groups disproportionately impacted, and the continent experienced its first re...