October 2025 – Duke Global Health Innovation Center

30Oct 2025 by Melissa Slogan

October 2025 Monthly Roundup

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In This Edition: October 2025 Newsletter This month's newsletter highlights our work strengthening health systems across Latin America, introduces a major new consortium advancing country-led health innovation, and celebrates innovators driving healthcare access worldwide. Key highlights include: Strengthening Health Systems in Latin America – Our new report analyzes health budgeting practices across 8 countries with actionable recommendations for policymakers, plus insights from a recent roundtable with FIFARMA and the Atlantic Council Introducing The ALIGN Consortium – A groundbreaking partnership led by Duke GHIC with partners in Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa to strengthen the decision-making systems that determine how health innovations are prioritized and introduced in countries Events Spotlight – Upcoming appearances at Rice360's Innovation for Healthcare Access Conference and North Star Alliance's Regional Conference, plus recaps from recent discussions…

30Oct 2025 by Melissa Slogan

Analysis of Health Budget Practices in 8 Latin American countries: Current Practices, Systemic Challenges, and the Road Ahead for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru

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Our report, funded by FIFARMA, analyzes how health resources are planned, prioritized, allocated, and managed in eight Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Its purpose is to understand the processes of health budget allocation and execution, identify the gaps between population health needs and available resources, and provide concrete recommendations for policymakers and health system stakeholders to strengthen efficiency and equity in health budget management. Read the full report.

29Oct 2025 by Melissa Slogan

Introducing The ALIGN Consortium

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New Initiative Introducing The ALIGN Consortium Advancing Country-Led Innovation Introduction through Government Engagement and EvideNce [caption id="attachment_6422" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Members of the ALIGN Consortium Executive Committee strategize on effective, efficient innovation introduction. Photo taken on August 19th, 2025, Nairobi Kenya.[/caption] The ALIGN Consortium aims to improve health outcomes by strengthening the critical decision-making systems that determine how health product innovations are prioritized and introduced in countries, to make those systems more effective and efficient. Our goal is to create more accountable, resilient health systems that deliver better health outcomes faster for all, and to generate insights, tools, and resources that can be used by stakeholders around the world. The Challenge Despite robust innovation pipelines, promising health technologies often fail to reach low- and middle-income countries quickly, equitably, or sustainably. The median time from…

20Oct 2025 by Melissa Slogan

Food for Trust: What nutrition teaches us about building trust in health

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Food and nutrition are among the most personal—and most public—parts of our lives. They connect us to family, culture, identity, and values as well as health. They also reveal how health advice travels: through science, through policy, and through the messengers and media to which we choose to listen and learn. At Food for Trust: Nutrition Guidance, Influence, and Lessons on Trust in Health, part of Duke Global Health Institute’s Think Global series, panelists explored how nutrition guidance is made, communicated, and followed. Organized by the Duke Global Health Innovation Center and moderated by the Center’s Heather Lanthorn, the event (you can watch the video here!) tied directly to Healthier Together—an initiative jointly incubated by Duke, Your Local Epidemiologist, and COVID Collaborative—building infrastructure for the next generation of grassroots, trustworthy…