Events

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Events

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Oct

9

12:00—1:30 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L St, NW

- Fifth Floor

Economic Stimulus from Public Health Programs: Externalities from Mass AIDS Treatment Provision in South Africa

Public health programs such antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV are likely to have positive spillover benefits to community members beyond the targeted beneficiaries that could be many times larger than the direct benefits. Join CGD for a brownbag s...

Aug

10

12:30—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Implementing Clinical Trials during Epidemics: The Ebola Experience

The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic broke out and affected thousands of people at a time when there were no medicines approved to treat or prevent Ebola. Poor infrastructure, capacity gaps, widespread mistrust, and disagreements over the design and ethical ...

Jun

28

12:30—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

The Economics of the Global Response to HIV/AIDS

Join us for a seminar with economist Markus Haacker, who will discuss the motivations behind and findings from his forthcoming book, The Economics of the Global Response to HIV/AIDS. As in the book, Haacker will review the global impact of and r...

Feb

23

5:30—6:30 PM

Modeling for Public Health

The Institute for Disease Modeling conducts quantitative research aimed at disease eradication through the application of tools such as statistical and individual-based modeling.  This talk will provide an overview of the Institute, and then foc...

Oct

8

2:30—4:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street, NW

- Fifth Floor

How to spend HIV budgets: Using the Optima modeling tool to improve HIV resource allocation in low and middle income countries

Global financial resources for health have substantially increased over the period of the MDGs but are now steady or declining. Domestic resources in low- and middle-income countries may not be able to keep up with demand for treatment needs, let alo...

Sep

29

12:30—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

The Economic Impact of ART Programs

The world recently reached a milestone in the fight against HIV/AIDS: 15 million people around the globe now have access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART). In 2001, only 1 million people had such access. This has resulted in tremendous gain...

Jun

4

12:30—2:00 PM

Center for Global Development

2055 L Street NW

- Fifth Floor

Thresholds for the Cost–Effectiveness of Interventions: Alternative Approaches

Determining which health interventions represent good value for money and are therefore good investments is an ongoing challenge for policymakers. A common approach to making these decisions has involved the use of thresholds based on per capita GDP....

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