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Blog Post
January 11, 2012
This is a joint post with Owen McCarthy.
The development community breathed a sigh of relief on December 23 when President Obama signed a nine-bill spending package that included healthy funding for the International Affairs budget. But there is more in this behemoth than topline funding num...
Blog Post
January 11, 2012
Since October 2010, Haiti has struggled to control a deadly cholera outbreak—on top of ongoing recovery efforts from the devastating earthquake in January 2010. To date 7000 Haitians have died from cholera and more than half a million have been infected; PAHO recently called it the largest cholera o...
Blog Post
January 10, 2012
How do we get to universal health coverage? This was the focus of a panel with William Hsiao, David de Ferranti and Yanzhong Huang at the Council for Foreign Relations in Washington yesterday. Of the many salient points discussed, including defining “universal health coverage”, Hsiao emphasized the ...
Blog Post
January 09, 2012
This is a joint post with Julie Walz.
Two years ago, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, plunging an already poor and unstable country into complete and utter chaos. In the days and weeks that followed, international responses and donations were overwhelming. Yet almost all of the assista...