Blog Posts, Releases Address Various COVID-19 Issues

Brookings: Developing countries can respond to COVID-19 in ways that are swift, at scale, and successful
Larry Cooley, nonresident senior fellow, and Johannes F. Linn, nonresident senior fellow, both with Global Economy and Development at Brookings (6/4).

Brookings: Ensuring learning continuity for every African child in the time of COVID-19
Adedeji Adeniran, director of education (governance research) and senior fellow with the Center for the Studies of African Economies (6/4).

Brookings: Education is crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 response
Jean-Marc Bernard, senior education economist with the Global Partnership for Education (6/4).

Center for Global Development: The Indirect Health Effects of COVID-19: Lockdown Measures and Service Provision
Lydia Regan, research assistant, and Y-Ling Chi, senior Policy Analyst, both with CGD (6/4).

Center for Global Development: Is Nigeria Ready to Leave Lockdown?
Uzochukwu Benjamin, professor of public health, health policy and systems in the Department of Community Medicine and Health Administration & Management at University of Nigeria’s College of Medicine, and colleagues (6/4).

Council on Foreign Relations: Global Health Security Turns to Confront Cyber Threats
David P. Fidler, adjunct senior fellow for cybersecurity and global health at CFR (6/4).

Think Global Health: Dual Pandemics: Coronavirus and Gender-Based Violence
Karen Sherman, president of Akilah, an East African institute for women’s leadership and career development (6/1).

Think Global Health: Uncertainty and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abraham Flaxman, associate professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute, and Kevin O’Rourke, freelance scientific writer, both with the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (6/1).

UNAIDS: Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on key populations (6/4).

World Bank Blogs: Meeting the health needs of persons with disabilities during COVID-19 (coronavirus)
Charlotte V. McClain-Nhlapo, global disability adviser for the World Bank Group, and colleagues (6/4).

WHO: WHO welcomes crucial new funding for vaccines (6/4).

WHO Regional Office for Europe: Protecting nature protects health — lessons for the future from COVID-19 (6/5).

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