Four new CGD pieces, released today, examine the current state of play on COVID-19 oral antivirals. Our analyses provide a deep-dive in key cross-cutting areas—demand, voluntary licensing deals for generic supply, and deployment—and offer policy actions for 2023 and beyond.

This week marks the third African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH) week—a critical touch point in ongoing efforts to expand access to quality-assured medicines across the African continent. However, a big concern looms: how to best ensure long-term sustainable funding for regulatory systems...

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...

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...

CGD has set up a working group to examine different ways to purchase antimicrobials in LMICs in order to identify actionable policies to improve access and stewardship for key products and increase funding for research into new ones. We are launching today the Working Group’s first working paper.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is set for a second term as Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is the sole candidate for a procedural leadership vote at the World Health Assembly (WHA) next week and has the full support of the WHO’s executive board.

Since the start of the 20th century, global average life expectancy has risen from 32 to 72 years. The introduction of antimicrobials—such as antibiotics—to treat infections, combined with vaccines and improved infection control, helped significantly reduce the risks from infectious diseases, which ...