The Lancet: Alma Ata at 40 years: reflections from the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health David A. Watkins, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington, and colleagues on the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health revisit the commission’s 2013 report, “Global health 2035: a…

U.N. News: Governments, businesses ‘walk the talk’ for investment in sustainable development: U.N. forum “Business and government leaders from around the world have gathered at a major United Nations conference in Geneva, in search of innovative and strategic solutions to complex investment and development challenges. The 2018 World Investment Forum,…

Vox: Scientists have estimated the cost of stopping 11 diseases that could kill millions in a pandemic “…[R]esearchers from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) [last week] published a study in [The] Lancet estimating the cost of developing vaccines for diseases that have the potential to escalate into global…

The Atlantic: The U.S. Used to Criticize Countries That Didn’t Allow Their Citizens to Leave “President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Monday that the United States was cutting off aid to Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador because they hadn’t stopped ‘people from leaving their country and coming illegally to…

African Exponent: George W. Bush’s Initiative To Fight The HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Saved Millions of Lives in Africa “…The fight against global HIV/AIDS before 2003 almost seemed a futile and fruitless exercise. But a governmental initiative originated by George W. Bush when he was the 43rd president of the United…

NPR: The Consequences Of Threatening Foreign Aid Cuts Over Immigration Enforcement “NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Andrew Natsios, former USAID administrator, about President Trump’s threat to cut aid because of a migrant caravan that reached Mexico…” (10/21).

VOA News: Trump Administration Rethinks Foreign Aid With Eye Toward China “…China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative [features] billions of dollars in infrastructure investment across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. The global impact is forcing the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to rethink elements of its plan to cut…

WorldPost/Washington Post: Big Pharma is hurting drug innovation Mariana Mazzucato, director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose “…If governments acted with the same urgency and strategic deliberation toward improving health as they do when it comes to national defense, we might be able to transform health care…

European Commission: E.U. and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation join forces to support health services in Africa “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will contribute €54 million ($62.5 million) to E.U. efforts to strengthen diagnostic health services in sub-Saharan Africa under the External Investment Plan. This cooperation will help to…

Washington Post: Letter to the Editor: Trump’s health policy does not protect life Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity “In the Oct. 11 front-page [Washington Post] article … there was an essential breach between the Trump administration’s words and the effect of its foreign policy. ……