I am honored to be delivering the 2024 Adam Wagstaff Memorial Lecture at the World Bank +USAID Global Health + The GFF Annual Health Financing Forum. My lecture is titled 'Healthcare Supply Chain Reform: Approaches, Evidence, and Political Economy'.
April 17th, 8.30am-9.30am US ET,

Best thing I've read this week. Org theory lessons from the demise of Boeing.

New working paper on climate, wildfire smoke, and mortality, expertly led by Minghao Qiu StanfordECHOLab . We find that by mid-century in the US, damages from mortality from wildfire smoke are about equal to the sum of all other climate damages in recent estimates 🧵

Pretty striking

The 'Our Common Air' Commission says that airborne toxins are currently a threat to our climate, health, and economies, but that the issue is not yet getting the attention it deserves. Proud to be part of the Commission. euronews.com/business/2024/…

IDB, World Bank reports on emergency capital could pave way for expanded lending straitstimes.com/world/idb-worl…

Ending lead poisoning in low & middle income countries could help improve learning and reduce violence - as I wrote back in June 2023 ggd.world/p/toxic-mascul…

Congratulations to Justin Sandefur and colleagues Center for Global Development for championing this overlooked aspect of public health. Bravo.

Digital health funding for COVID-19 vaccine deployment across four major donor agencies UNICEF Karin Källander World Health Organization (WHO) World Bank World Bank Health G20 Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance The Global Fund

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Thanks to Evidence for Policy Design for highlighting our work on 'Building State Capacity : What Is the Impact of Development Projects?' documents.worldbank.org/en/publication… with evidence from Tanzania, by @VincenzoDiMaro, Khemani, @ThiagoScot & me

(Spoiler: In this case, answer = zero.)

Inequalities in stunting and in overweight in Latin America

From publications.iadb.org/en/health-ineq… Marcos Vera-Hernández 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Antonella Bancalari Dolores de la Mata et al Inter-American Development Bank

New paper: Taxonomy of health systems in Latin America by type

publications.iadb.org/en/health-syst… Inter-American Development Bank Antonella Bancalari Dolores de la Mata Facultad de Medicina | UNAL Colombia et al

Over 15 months, U.S. trade officials worked closely with the $47B baby formula industry to wage a diplomatic and political pressure campaign to weaken Thailand’s proposed ban on formula marketing, a ProPublica investigation found. propublica.org/article/how-am…

Postulate: Domestic politics matter more than international politics for getting Covid under control.

Look forward to reading this book's definitive account of China's response to COVID-19 by the brilliant Dali L. Yang of The University of Chicago.

HT Yanzhong Huang Council on Foreign Relations

Exciting news! Our book has a cover!

More info: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

This step by African Development Bank Group could be huge if all MDBs 'issued hybrid capital = to 20% shareholder capital (w/100% credit as equity), they could add $64B to usable equity & could be leveraged at 3-5x to create $192-$320B in lending' Center for Global Development
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