Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
The Telegraph: Experts urge G20 ministers to back rhetoric with resources and fully fund pandemic preparedness “Promises to invest in pandemic preparedness to prevent a repeat of the current crisis are yet to be backed up with adequate resources, experts have warned, ahead of a meeting of G20 health and…
Center for Global Development: This Is the Perfect Moment to Redesign U.K. Aid Spend on Research Euan Ritchie, research associate with CGD Europe, and Charles Kenny, director of technology and development and senior fellow with CGD (7/23). Pew Charitable Trusts: The U.S. Is Not Prepared to Combat ‘Existential Threat’ of…
The Conversation: Kenya is having another go at passing a reproductive rights bill. What’s at stake Anthony Idowu Ajayi, postdoctoral research scientist, and Meggie Mwoka, policy research officer, both at the African Population and Health Research Center (7/12). Devex: A green recovery action plan for the World Bank Ladd Connell,…
Wellcome: A lifeline for antibiotic development Jeremy Knox, policy & advocacy lead for drug-resistant infections at Wellcome, discusses the role of governments in stimulating antibiotic development and the AMR Action Fund. Knox writes, “High on the list of acute concerns is the continuing global spread of drug-resistant infections, ‘superbugs’ which…
New York Times: Drug Giants Create Fund to Bolster Struggling Antibiotic Start-Ups “Twenty of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies on Thursday announced the creation of a $1 billion fund to buoy financially strapped biotech start-ups that are developing new antibiotics to treat the mounting number of drug-resistant infections responsible for…
The Conversation: Mobile health services can help in rural Ghana if they have the human touch Robert E. Hinson, head of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ghana Business School at the University of Ghana (7/8). Financial Times: Bias against black researchers harms science Marja Makarow,…
Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: The next transparency challenge for U.S. aid agencies: Moving from publication to engagement George Ingram, senior fellow for Global Economy and Development at Brookings, and Sally Paxton, U.S. representative for Publish What You Fund (7/7). Health Affairs: Increases In Women’s Political Representation Associated With Reductions In…
WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The July 2020 WHO Bulletin features an editorial about tackling antimicrobial resistance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a research article about modeling the effects of Wuhan, China’s lockdown during COVID-19, a perspective piece on the local production of essential medicines in Nigeria, as well…
Devex: High price excludes patients from better treatment for drug-resistant TB “…Johnson & Johnson, which markets bedaquiline under the brand name Sirturo [for the treatment of drug-resistant TB], has been accused of employing unfair tactics in an attempt to retain the drug’s patent and tighten its grip on the monopoly.…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “The Optimist”: Exemplars in Global Health: Q&A with Dr. Niranjan Bose Niranjan Bose, managing director of Health & Life Sciences Strategy at Gates Ventures LLC (6/24). Brookings Institution’s “Future Development”: Climate change merits a fiscal response like COVID-19’s Vinod Thomas, visiting professor for the Asian…