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USAID: USAID Participates In Global Health Security Agenda Ministerial, Calls On The Governments Of Member Countries To Make Commitments “From November 18 to 20, 2020, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be participating in the official United States Delegation to the Sixth Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)…
The Hill: A Biden strategy for genuine global health security Chris Collins, president and CEO, and Mark P. Lagon, chief policy officer, both at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (11/14). The Hill: Biden’s initiative on COVID-19 should include cooperation with China Robert Hormats, managing director…
The Telegraph: Covid-19 strengthens Britons’ desire to fight global diseases, poll finds “Awareness among Britons on the importance of preventing global disease and the desire to fight it has grown significantly in the last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, new analysis from Malaria No More U.K. has…
Washington Post: America’s pandemic “In a three-part documentary, the Washington Post explores a failed response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s left 225,000 Americans dead, despite decades of preparation in Washington…” (Shefte/Ribas, 10/27).
CNBC: Progressive lawmakers call on congressional leaders to prepare for next pandemic “More than 100 Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives, largely progressives, are calling on congressional leaders to take steps to prepare the United States for the next pandemic and mitigate racial disparities in U.S. health care.…
World Bank: Epidemic Preparedness and Response (10/12). World Economic Forum: 5 urgent actions to stop future pandemics crushing the global economy Harry Kretchmer, senior writer for Formative Content (10/12). World Politics Review: The Time to Start Preparing for the Next Pandemic Is Now Stewart M. Patrick, James H. Binger senior…
BMJ Global Health: The value proposition of the Global Health Security Index Sanjana J. Ravi, senior analyst at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and colleagues discuss how the Global Health Security Index (GHS Index), a comprehensive assessment of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries, “can help…
Center for Global Development: Mortality Data in COVID-19 and Beyond: The Bedrock of Global Health Security Amanda Glassman, executive vice president of CGD, CEO of CGD Europe, and senior fellow at CGD, and Eleni Smitham, research assistant at CGD (10/6). BMJ Opinion: If the U.K. wants to lead in global…
The Telegraph: Health security must take a bigger place on global agenda, says former WHO chief “Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland served three terms as prime minister of Norway and was director general (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2003 when the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) pandemic emerged…
AP: Uganda reports blood shortages amid coronavirus pandemic (Muhumuza/Onen, 10/5). Bloomberg: J&J CEO Gorsky Says Covid Shows Need for Global Health Security (Griffin, 10/2). BMJ: Covid-19: 120 million rapid tests pledged to low and middle income countries (Mahase, 10/2). Financial Times: With 1m dead, are we any better at treating…
