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Blog Post
September 05, 2023
Today the Africa Centers for Disease Control’s (ACDC) Health Economics Programme (HEP) has published a new policy brief on the cost-effectiveness of two COVID-19 oral antivirals (COAVs), a nirmatrelvir/ritonavir combination, developed by Pfizer and sold under the name Paxlovid, and Molnupiravir, dev...
Blog Post
June 01, 2023
No longer the new kid on the block, Effective Altruism (EA) has evolved from its early days in the quadrangles of the University of Oxford to become a thriving community with a well-established architecture of philanthropic institutions. EA organisations now marshal resources in the hundreds of mill...
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2023
10:00—11:00 AM EDT / 14:00-15:00 UTC
March 13, 2023
Health aid has contributed to historic gains in global health, but it can also be volatile, fragmented, and even displace domestic finances. What’s more, it can prevent countries from setting their own priorities, which is worsened by a lack of equitable aid exit strategy. Health financing requires ...
Blog Post
December 14, 2022
It’s clear that COVID-19 oral antivirals are effective, and recent deals have made them even cheaper for African countries. But should these countries be investing in these medicines? Or would spending on alternative health services be better value for money? Unfortunately, there is very little avai...
Blog Post
June 10, 2022
In June 2021, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, offered a challenge to the world: “To truly end the pandemic, our goal must be to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the world’s population by the time you meet again in Germany next year.” However, as we approach this year’s G7 summit, the 70 percent target has b...
Blog Post
January 12, 2022
Women-owned businesses around the world have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, closing at higher rates than businesses owned by men. There are a variety of reasons why this happened: partly because women are concentrated in sectors that suffered a greater drop in demand during the pandemic, an...
WORKING PAPERS
December 17, 2021
This paper analyzes a rich pre-pandemic data set on both men and women business owners from 401 mainly rural villages in five regencies (kabupaten) of East Java province, Indonesia. There are some similarities but mostly large gender differences in characteristics and resources in this random sample...
Blog Post
November 15, 2021
With the Biden-Harris administration’s release of the first-ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality, the United States has taken an unprecedented step in seeking to close gender gaps at home and abroad. In light of persistent gender inequalities, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, po...
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10:00—12:45 PM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)
October 25, 2021
In early 2021, CGD launched the COVID-19 Gender and Development Initiative with two objectives: increase the importance of gender equality on the policy agendas of global decision-makers in COVID response and recovery, and generate resources to ensure their decisions are evidence-based. Since then, ...