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World Economic Forum: Data can prevent the next global health emergency. Here’s how Hemant Ahlawat, senior partner at McKinsey & Company, and colleagues discuss the role of data and advanced analytics to help mitigate the impacts of future health emergencies, highlighting a recently published report by the Trinity Challenge on…

UNAIDS: Coming together to address the cost of inequality “…Although the colliding pandemics of HIV and COVID-19 are hitting the poorest and the most vulnerable the hardest, through national resource mobilization the COVID-19 crisis has created an opportunity for partners to mobilize in support of the communities they serve. The…

Axios: Scoop: Biden weighs Sam Power for USAID “Joe Biden is considering Samantha Power to head the United States Agency for International Development, which would place a high-profile figure atop foreign aid and coronavirus relief efforts, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. Why it matters: Installing Power — a…

U.N. News: World must invest in strong health systems that protect everyone — now and into the future “The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed just how important it is for all countries to have strong health systems that provide the entire population with quality services when and where they need them,…

PRI: Film shows how Yemen’s health workers struggle to save young victims of malnutrition “Children on the verge of death from malnutrition in Yemen are being brought back to health and recovering their childhoods, thanks to nutrition clinics across the country. Dr. Aida Al-Sadeeq celebrates those success stories. For a…

The Guardian: Children will die due to U.K. overseas aid cuts, pediatricians say “Cutting the U.K.’s overseas aid budget will result in a significant number of children dying ‘with negative impacts lasting generations,’ the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has said. Joining a chorus of voices opposing the…

HHS: Trump Administration purchases additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 investigational vaccine from Moderna “The Trump administration, through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Defense (DoD), will purchase an additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate, called mRNA-1273, from Moderna. If authorized by…

HHS: Statement from HHS and DoD on FDA Emergency Use Authorization of a COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate “[On Friday,] the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Pfizer for its COVID-19 vaccine, the first authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Operation Warp Speed…

Think Global Health: COVID-19: An Investment in Our Economy William A. Haseltine, chair and president of ACCESS Health International (12/10). Think Global Health: Why Mass Vaccination in the West Could be Bad News for Chinese Leaders Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, director…