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May
18
2023
10:00—11:00 AM ET / 3:00-4:00 PM BST
May 08, 2023
Swift and effective responses to disease outbreaks require a versatile toolkit. Pooled procurement can play a key role in enabling rapid access to safe, effective, and affordable medical countermeasures like vaccines and therapeutics. This procurement arrangement is associated with benefits such as ...
Mar
23
2022
11:00—12:15 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
March 15, 2022
Well-functioning supply chains to deliver medicines, vaccines, and other health products are the backbone of the health system. Continued challenges in the financing, procurement, and distribution of health products lead to frequent stockouts at health clinics, putting treatment programs at risk and...
Jan
28
2022
11:00—12:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
January 24, 2022
Providing patients with high-quality essential medicines requires a well-functioning procurement, distribution, and regulatory system. However, in many low- and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs), the centrally run supply chain is unable to provide health facilities with uninterrupted supply lead...
Feb
10
2020
10:00—11:30 AM
January 31, 2020
Spending on pharmaceuticals and other health care commodities is one of the fastest growing elements of healthcare spending in rich and poorer countries alike. A popular response to the problem of escalating drugs budgets has been seeking transparency of drug pricing within and across borders. In a ...
Sep
17
2019
9:30—11:00 AM
August 29, 2019
Quality affordable generic medicines play a vital role in health systems around the world. Healthy competition from quality generic medicines can help keep prices in check—a shared concern across high-income and low- and middle-income countries. But CGD’s Working Group on the Future of G...
Sep
22
2019
5:30—7:30 PM
July 16, 2019
Spending on health products tops $50 billion annually in just a subset of low- and middle-income countries. And a large share of health aid goes to the same use. But despite its importance for spending and health outcomes, the procurement of medicines and other health products remains a neglected he...
Dec
13
2018
12:00—1:30 PM
November 29, 2018
Innovations to improve the distribution of health products are emerging in several key markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, promising (among other things) to decrease the prices and price variability of medications, improve quality, increase availability and extend the geographic reach of products. Impact...