Events

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Events

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Jun

9

10:00—11:00 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada), 3:00—4:00pm BST, 2:00—3:00pm GMT

A Conversation with Relief Chief Mark Lowcock

As the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir Mark Lowcock was known colloquially as the "Relief Chief" – tasked with coordinating the global response to save lives and protect the most vulnerable. Yet when he took the ...

Apr

5

4:00—5:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health

Over the past 15 years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution—one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children gr...

Jun

18

2:00—3:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW - Fifth Floor

Epic Measures: A Book Talk with Author Jeremy Smith

In Epic Measures: One Doctor, Seven Billion Patients, journalist Jeremy Smith chronicles how the Global Burden of Disease study came into being—and what it can tell us already. In this talk, Smith shared highlights from the true story of ...

Jun

10

4:00—6:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers

Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers proposes a radical new policy option for countries facing the daunting challenges of natural resource windfalls: citizen dividends. Authors Todd Moss, Caroline Lambert, and Stephanie Majero...

Jun

2

10:00—11:00 AM

CGD Europe

54 Wilton Road, Pimlico

Digital Humanitarians: A CGD Europe Book Launch with Author Patrick Meier

The information overflow that occurs in the wake of a disaster can paralyze humanitarian response efforts. Computers, mobile phones, social media, mainstream news, earth-based sensors, humanitarian drones, and orbiting satellites generate vast volume...

Jan

29

6:00—7:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L St NW

, Fifth Floor

The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest Is Good for the West

America is in decline, and the rise of the East suggests a bleak future for the world's only superpower - so goes the conventional wisdom. In his new book, The Upside of Down, Charles Kenny argues that America's so-called decline is only relative to ...

Jan

16

6:00—7:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L St NW, Fifth Floor

How Social Movements Succeed: Lessons from HIV/AIDS

AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations, a new book by Ethan Kapstein and Joshua Busby, describes the politics and economics of the profound transformation in the market for antiretroviral (ARV) medications from “high price, l...

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