Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues
Bloomberg: Asia Trounces U.S. in Health-Efficiency Index Amid Pandemic “As a pandemic ravaged the world, Asian economies led by Hong Kong and Singapore topped a ranking of most-efficient health care systems. The Bloomberg Health-Efficiency Index, first conducted in 2013, tracks life expectancy and medical spending to determine which health-care systems…
Financial Times: Moderna Covid vaccine set to receive U.S. approval “The U.S. drugs regulator will grant emergency approval to a second coronavirus vaccine in the coming days, a decision that will make it the first country to have authorized two inoculations against the virus…” (Stacey/Kuchler, 12/17). NBC News: FDA advisers…
Devex: Experts caution Trump against hasty foreign aid rebrand “President Donald Trump’s plan to rebrand U.S. foreign aid with a single logo that ’embodies the values and generosity of the American people’ could put at risk six decades of global brand equity built up by the U.S. Agency for International…
IPS: Aren’t We Missing Food Security Experts in the Incoming President-Elect Biden-Kamala Harris Administration? Esther Ngumbi, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and senior food security New Voices fellow with the Aspen Institute, and Ifeanyi McWilliams Nsofor, senior New Voices fellow with the Aspen Institute, senior…
NIH Fogarty International Center: Fogarty International Center’s Global Health Matters The most recent issue of the Fogarty International Center’s newsletter contains various articles addressing global health topics, including one about women advocating for leadership roles in global health during the 2020 Women Leaders in Global Health Conference, and another on…
KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of December 18, 2020 This tracker is updated daily with data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 (12/18). KFF will continue to provide COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused on the response and impact within the…
The Hill: Global Gag Rule is just the tip of the iceberg: Why Repealing the Helms Amendment matters Reps. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) (12/17). Ms. Magazine: The Helms Amendment: 47 Years of Denying U.S. Support for International Reproductive Health and Rights…
Center for Global Development: DFC’s December Board Meeting: A Fitting Bookend for the Agency’s First Year Clemence Landers, policy fellow, and Jocilyn Estes, program coordinator and policy outreach assistant, both at CGD, discuss the Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC) efforts and portfolio in 2020, writing, “DFC’s inaugural year leaves us with…
STAT: One-quarter of the world may not get a Covid-19 vaccine until 2022, experts warn “As wealthy governments race to lock in supplies of Covid-19 vaccines, nearly a quarter of the world’s population — mostly in low- and middle-income countries — will not have access to a shot until 2022,…
The Hill: FDA says Pfizer vaccine supply is up to 40 percent higher than previously thought as vials hold multiple doses “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday said that health officials may be able to obtain as many as seven doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine from vials initially…
