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Devex: Which countries are the most committed to development? “Scandinavian countries are the most committed national development actors, according to this year’s Commitment to Development Index, which measures not just aid levels, but also how well other policies foster sustainable development. Germany ranked third, making it the first time a…

IntraHealth International: New Project Will Use Behavioral Science to Improve Family Planning Services in Uganda “[A] new research project, called Scale-Up and Capacity Building in Behavioral Science to Improve the Uptake of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services (SupCap, for short) will improve the health and well-being of women of…

CIDRAP News: New Ebola cases, 3 more deaths recorded in DRC (Soucheray, 9/17). Devex: The backbone of India’s health care system: Is there a new role for ASHAs? (Bader, 9/17). GeekWire: How Bill Gates, a valley full of snakes and one entrepreneur took on a deadly disease (McGrane, 9/14). Global…

University of California, Davis: Preventing the Next Pandemic Andy Fell, news and media relations specialist at UC Davis, highlights various projects conducted by the University of California, Davis on preventing disease outbreaks, including the PREDICT project, which aims to “enable global surveillance for viruses with the potential to spillover from…

Devex: Feeding a growing world as it faces climate change “The global food system is getting its moment in the spotlight at the Global Climate Action Summit, with several funding announcements signaling a new focus on an industry that accounts for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions…” (Cheney,…

Reuters: A child dies every five seconds, and most are preventable deaths — U.N. “An estimated 6.3 million children died before their 15th birthdays in 2017, or one every five seconds, mostly due to a lack of water, sanitation, nutrition, and basic health care, according to report by United Nations…

STAT: U.N. finalizes a declaration to combat the global tuberculosis epidemic “After a protracted showdown, the United Nations has finalized a declaration to address a global tuberculosis epidemic, an effort that was repeatedly delayed this summer as the U.S. and numerous other countries battled over key passages. The move clears…

Devex: Bill and Melinda Gates on the ‘single biggest determinant’ of progress on the SDGs “Rapid population growth, particularly in Africa, represents the greatest threat to progress in reducing global poverty, according to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose founders are calling for greater investments in human capital to…

The Atlantic: A/B Testing Foreign Aid Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus, co-founders of GiveDirectly and Segovia Technology “How can we innovate in the huge, $140 billion foreign aid sector? The same way we do in the private sector: routine evaluations of what’s working well and what isn’t. Yet donors rarely…