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Mashup Score: 6The Future of Global Health Spending Amidst Multiple Crises - 2 year(s) ago
This CGD note summarizes the implications of the macroeconomic context and broader financing outlook for domestic and external health spending and proposes a “menu” of policy options to keep health spending on track and blunt negative impacts on health systems and population health around the world.
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Mashup Score: 0A Rallying Cry for More US Health Innovation at “Warp Speed” - 2 year(s) ago
Building on the success of Operation Warp Speed, the US should deepen its engagement and ambition in global health R&D to drive transformative improvements in global health outcomes and security. Specifically, it should consider a subscription model for new antimicrobials; an advance market commitment (AMC) for rapid tuberculosis diagnostics; and a moonshot prize plus manufacturing support to…
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Mashup Score: 1The World Needs New Antibiotics. A Proposed US Program to Develop Them Would Pay Off 28:1 - 2 year(s) ago
Congress has excellent legislation on the docket that would protect American citizens, yield huge returns, and create a safer, healthier world. We encourage the US Congress to urgently finance and authorize the PASTEUR Act, leveraging American ingenuity to boost our shared health future.
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Mashup Score: 0Learning from Different Nations' Experiences with COVID-19: Models of Public Inquiry, Methods to Globally Network - 2 year(s) ago
While all corners of the world have been touched by COVID-19, countries’ experiences with the virus have certainly not been universal. Staggering divergences in outcomes between countries—in terms of lives lost, economic carnage, secondary health losses, learning loss, and social trust and cohesion, to name a few—underline the urgency of understanding how and why the COVID-19 pandemic has played…
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Mashup Score: 39Back to School: An Update on COVID Cases as Schools Reopen - 2 year(s) ago
Last month we published a blog post tracking new COVID-19 cases in countries where schools had recently reopened or were about to reopen. Two weeks on, we’ve updated the data. In the countries where the epidemic was sizable and where schools have been open for a few weeks, the trend remains more or less the same.
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70% of kids in Detroit chronically absent in the 2020-2021 and all for *no benefit* against covid Don't forget: We KNEW community cases did NOT increase related to school reopening in spring of 2020 https://t.co/c63baCN54u & Swedish-Finnish study showed the same 7/7/20 (link 👇) https://t.co/GKrXHQA9Ty https://t.co/UDcd0dYRgr
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Mashup Score: 4Time to Rethink the Goal of 70 Percent COVID Vaccine Coverage and Refocus on those at Greatest Risk - 2 year(s) ago
In June 2021, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, offered a challenge to the world: “To truly end the pandemic, our goal must be to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the world’s population by the time you meet again in Germany next year.” However, as we approach this year’s G7 summit, the 70 percent target has been missed in most countries and almost all African countries.
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Mashup Score: 3
In May, the World Bank issued a white paper on a new financial intermediary fund (FIF) for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. This document will be the basis for subsequent discussion and approval by the World Bank’s Board, composed of 25 constituencies representing 189 country governments. In considering the proposal, the Bank’s Board will decide if the new Fund meets its criteria…
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Mashup Score: 27
You win or lose your readers with the introduction of your economics paper. Your title and your abstract should convince people to read your introduction. Research shows that economics papers with more readable introductions get cited more. The introduction is your opportunity to lay out your research question, your empirical strategy, your findings, and why it matters. Succinctly.
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Excellent analysis with important policy options. Well worth the read. Key will be for individual countries to take the lead charting their healthy future, with support from global partners. The Future of Global Health Spending Amidst Multiple Crises https://t.co/IcCpKz0E33