Infectious Diseases

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BRIEFS
Expert Recommendations for US and Global Preparedness for COVID-19
The Center for Global Development
February 13, 2020
Blog Post
A Final MVAC Blueprint—and the Start of an R&D Revolution?
Rachel Silverman Bonnifield et al.
February 05, 2020
Despite decades of investment, TB remains a global crisis. Each year, TB kills 1.6 million people—making it the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. We have set out to develop a solution: what we ultimately called the Market-Driven, Value-Based Advance Commitment (MVAC), a mechani...
REPORTS
Blueprint for a Market-Driven Value-Based Advance Commitment for Tuberculosis
Kalipso Chalkidou et al.
February 05, 2020
The market-driven, value-based advance commitment (MVAC) builds on the advance market commitment (AMC) mechanism previously used in global health with several important innovations and improvements. Most crucially, the MVAC is driven by MIC demand rather than donor contributions; is informed by coun...
Blog Post
Coronavirus and Low-Income Countries: Ready to Respond?
Amanda Glassman
January 31, 2020
As the first suspected cases of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV are investigated in Ivory Coast and Angola, none of the 45 low-income countries that have undertaken a national preparedness assessment have been qualified as ready to respond.
Blog Post
Common Goods for Health: We Need Them. So How Do We Get Them?
William Savedoff
September 30, 2019
With so many obstacles to providing these critical services, it is worth asking why countries produce Common Goods for Health at all? How do countries ever reach the point where they are willing to tax themselves to invest in services that are in the public interest? Services that are invisible...
REPORTS
Struggling with Scale: Ebola’s Lessons for the Next Pandemic
Jeremy Konyndyk
May 09, 2019
The next global pandemic is a matter of when, not if. Preparing for this inevitability requires that policy­makers understand not just the science of limiting dis­ease transmission or engineering a drug, but also the practical challenges of expanding a response strategy to a regional or global level...
BRIEFS
Struggling with Scale: Ebola’s Lessons for the Next Pandemic (brief)
Jeremy Konyndyk
May 09, 2019
The next pandemic is a matter of when, not if. Preparing for this inevitability requires that policymakers understand not just the science of limiting disease transmission or engineering a drug, but also the practical challenges of expanding a response strategy to a regional or global level. Achievi...