Blog Posts, Statements, Letter Address Various COVID-19 Issues

Atlantic Council’s “New Atlanticist”: Will COVID-19 exacerbate or defuse conflicts in the Middle East?
Masoud Mostajabi, assistant director at the Atlantic Council (5/21).

Brookings: Americans want global engagement on fighting COVID-19
George Ingram, senior fellow for global economy and development at Brookings (5/21).

Center for Global Development: The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine: An Overview of Current Proposals and Our Contribution in Bringing in the Missing Middle
Rachel Silverman, policy fellow at CGD, and colleagues (5/21).

ONE: Why countries should be looking outwards as they tackle coronavirus
Dame Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics (5/22).

Pew Research Center: Americans Give Higher Ratings to South Korea and Germany Than U.S. for Dealing With Coronavirus (5/21).

Think Global Health: Feminist Foreign Policy and COVID-19
Priti Patnaik, Geneva-based independent journalist and researcher reporting on global health and international trade (5/20).

Think Global Health: World Health Assembly and Gender: Three Steps Forward, Many More to Go
Roopa Dhatt, co-founder of Women in Global Health (5/20).

Think Global Health: Estimating the Latin Wave of Coronavirus
Rafael Lozano, professor of health metrics sciences and director of health systems at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) (5/18).

Treatment Action Group: Appeal to UAE Authorities to Release Prisoners with HIV Vulnerable to COVID-19 (5/18).

UNAIDS: UNAIDS brings together Chinese and African health practitioners to share COVID-19 experiences (5/21).

UNAIDS: UNAIDS and civil society helping stranded people living with HIV (5/22).

UNICEF: As migrants return to Ethiopia, social workers show they’re essential to COVID-19 response
Demissew Bizuwerk, senior communications assistance at UNICEF (5/21).

World Economic Forum: ‘Millions facing starvation’ — Global political and business leaders on the economic impact of COVID-19
Christopher Alessi, digital editor, and Alice Hazelton, program lead for science and society, both with the World Economic Forum (5/20).

World Economic Forum: 10 lessons from the COVID-19 frontline for a more gender-equal world
Katja Iversen, president and chief executive officer of Women Deliver (5/22).

WHO: WHO and UNHCR join forces to improve health services for refugees, displaced and stateless people (5/21).

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