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Blog Post
October 13, 2022
On this episode of Pandemic Proof, Dr. Ayoade Alakija, the World Health Organization’s Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) and co-chair of the African Union’s African Vaccine Delivery Alliance, joins Javier Guzman to discuss global cooperation during health emergencies...
Aug
23
2022
9:00—10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
August 17, 2022
The world is up against a potentially catastrophic food security crisis. War in Ukraine, the drawn-out COVID-19 pandemic, high inflation, and the ongoing impact of climate change are all exacerbating already unstable food access and causing food prices to grow.
The Food and Agriculture Organizat...
Feb
10
2021
12:00—1:00 PM ET
February 02, 2021
Join Tim Harford and Amanda Glassman as they discuss Harford’s new book, The Data Detective. Already a bestseller in the UK, the book uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like p...
Mar
19
2018
9:30—11:00 AM
March 08, 2018
Join the Center for Global Development for a conversation with New York Times' columnist Nicholas Kristof. Fresh from a reporting trip to the Central African Republic with the winner of CGD’s and the New York Times’ “Win a Trip” contest, Kristof will discuss new and emerg...
Blog Post
January 26, 2017
The scale of the turnout at the Women’s Marches across the world recently, along with President Trump’s early reinstatement of a ban on US funding for organizations that offer family planning services in foreign countries, seem to suggest an administration already at odds with ...
Multimedia
January 25, 2017
The scale of the turnout at the Women’s Marches across the world recently, along with President Trump’s early reinstatement of a ban on US funding for organizations that offer family planning services in foreign countries, seem to suggest an administration already at odds with ...
Blog Post
December 07, 2015
2015 has been the year we have been reminded that there have been major gains in development in many parts of the world, but that hundreds of millions of people still suffer the dangerous consequences of poverty, including high levels of maternal and infant mortality, hunger, illness caused by lack ...
Dec
18
2014
12:30—2:00 PM
December 04, 2014
Please join us for a brown-bag lunch event featuring Jan von der Goltz’s presentation of his recent paper with Prabhat Barnwal assessing the health and wealth effects of mines on nearby communities. Their paper is the first extensive analysis to use microdata from communities near about 800 mi...