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AP: ‘It was so abrupt’: COVID-19 upends burial rites in Cameroon (Fonyuy, 10/14). AP: Iran virus death toll hits record high, 3rd time in a week (Vahdat et al., 10/14). CNBC: Bill Gates slams U.S. on Covid: Most governments listen to their scientists, not attack them (Belvedere, 10/14). CNBC: WHO…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: COVID-19 is showing us how to improve health systems — sometimes by disrupting them (October 2020). Center for Global Development: When Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves: COVID-19 and Thoughts on How to Measure a Country’s Performance Damian Walker, non-resident fellow at CGD, and colleagues (10/9).…
The Atlantic: Bill Gates: The Pandemic Has Erased Years of Progress (Yong, 9/23). Devex: How can we better protect migrant workers in the next global crisis? (Coca, 9/24). Financial Times: U.S. warns Turkey over failure to pay foreign healthcare debts (Pitel, 9/23). The Guardian: Internal displacements reach 15m in 2020…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “The Optimist”: Humanizing quantitative data: A Q&A with Chloé Roubert and Micki Semler Chloé Roubert, design anthropology lead, and Micki Semler, design research lead, both at Sonder Design Collective (9/16). UNAIDS: Shaping the next UNAIDS global AIDS strategy (9/18). UNICEF: WHO and UNICEF recommit to…
Devex: Audit finds E.U. aid to Kenya lacked impact (Chadwick, 9/16). Devex: A humanitarian emergency is bound to occur. What could a pandemic-era response look like? (Lieberman, 9/16). Devex: Shinzo Abe’s development legacy for Japan is here to stay (Ravelo/Cornish, 9/16). Devex: When are sewers the best option for improved…
Axios: Melinda Gates sees social media ‘reckoning’ in the post-COVID world (Fried, 9/15). CBS News: Bill Gates questions FDA’s credibility on COVID-19 vaccine (Gibson, 9/16). The Hill: Bill Gates: CDC being ‘written out of the picture’ on coronavirus (Coleman, 9/15). The Hill: Bill Gates urges Congress to spend $4B for…
Devex: How big is the SDG backslide? Gates Foundation presents new data “The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a 7% increase in extreme poverty, with an additional 37 million people living below $1.90 a day, according to a new report from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The fourth annual…
Financial Times: Bill & Melinda Gates: Vaccine fairness will make us all safer Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (9/14). Global Health NOW: To Prepare for Pandemics, Invest in Surgical Care Kee Park, Paul Farmer global surgery scholar in the Program in Global Surgery…
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “The Optimist”: The pandemic is forcing us all online. Can self-help and savings groups for low-income women go digital, too? (9/11). Center for Strategic & International Studies: Coronavirus Crisis Update: Heidi Larson — Time to Reset our Thinking on Vaccines J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice…
The Hill: GOP, Democratic relief packages $16B apart on vaccine funding “Two competing coronavirus relief packages on Capitol Hill underscore differing GOP and Democratic funding priorities for vaccine development and COVID-19 testing. The Senate GOP measure released this week includes roughly $16 billion more for vaccine development than the House-passed…
