08Dec 2025 by Melissa Slogan
2024-2025 Annual Report

2024-2025 Annual Report

News, Our Reports
Innovation to Impact: Our Year in Global Health July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025 As we navigate a period of profound changes in health and healthcare globally, it is with great pride and gratitude that we share our 2024–2025 Annual Report, a reflection of the transformative work we’ve accomplished together with partners around the world. At the Duke Global Health Innovation Center and Innovations in Healthcare, we remain steadfast in our belief that everyone deserves to thrive. Impact at a Glance Key Highlights: AI Learning Lab Launched ➡️ We launched an innovation incubator supporting six pioneering organizations applying AI solutions to local health challenges in low- and middle-income countries Rwanda's Model Marburg Response ➡️ Through the COVID Treatment Quickstart Consortium, our on-the-ground team helped Rwanda achieve one of the lowest mortality…
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07Dec 2025 by Melissa Slogan
Strengthening Health Innovation Introduction

Strengthening Health Innovation Introduction

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Strengthening Health Innovation Introduction Policy, financing, and advocacy enablers of effective, efficient innovation introduction Health innovations hold immense promise for improving lives, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Yet many of these innovations fail to reach the people who need them most, due to fragmented systems, misaligned priorities, and under-resourced decision-making processes. This paper, developed by the ALIGN Consortium, explores how countries can strengthen the systems that determine which health innovations are prioritized, financed, and introduced. Rather than focusing on the number of products launched, the initiative emphasizes decision quality, system alignment, and stakeholder engagement. 📄 Download the full paper. Original Publication: October 2025 Updated: December 2025, several references adjusted for accuracy
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30Oct 2025 by Melissa Slogan
October 2025 Monthly Roundup

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…
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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

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.
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29Oct 2025 by Melissa Slogan
Introducing The ALIGN Consortium

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…
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20Oct 2025 by Melissa Slogan
Food for Trust: What nutrition teaches us about building trust in health

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…
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25Aug 2025 by Melissa Slogan
Students Aid Rural Pamlico County in Improving Health Access

Students Aid Rural Pamlico County in Improving Health Access

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Now in its fourth year, DGHI’s summer student research project may offer a template for counties facing challenges in providing health services to rural residents. [caption id="attachment_6376" align="aligncenter" width="690"] From left: DGHI professor Diana Silimperi, Duke undergrads Tanya Sachdev and Sophie Li, and Yolanda Cristiani, executive director at Hope Clinic, which provides free care for uninsured people in Pamlico County.[/caption] By Mary-Russell Roberson; This post originally appeared on the Duke Global Health Institute’s website on August 25, 2025. View the original here: https://duke.is/r/8u2y. This summer, Duke sophomore Tanya Sachdev was paddling in a dragon boat in Oriental, North Carolina, when someone on the boat began to experience stroke symptoms. The group paddled to shore and waited for EMS, who took the patient to the nearest hospital – 45 minutes away…
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30Jun 2025 by Melissa Slogan
June 2025 Monthly Roundup

June 2025 Monthly Roundup

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The “Monthly Roundup” is a monthly newsletter dedicated to sharing the latest news from the Duke Global Health Innovation Center and Innovations in Healthcare. View the June 2025 newsletter. Subscribe to the monthly newsletter.
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27Jun 2025 by Melissa Slogan
Mpox Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response

Mpox Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response

News
Welcome to the sixteenth issue of our report, “Mpox: Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response.”In the wake of the U.S. health agencies’ communications and foreign aid freezes, we hope to serve as a resource for transparency on emerging outbreaks globally while continuing to provide in-depth analysis of the mpox response. We will provide brief updates on emerging outbreaks with the state of available medical countermeasures and diagnostics needed to effectively respond. Highlights:   Over 50% of pledged doses have been delivered to 11 countries, with reports of high vaccine acceptance in the 7 countries vaccinating: Nearly 3 million doses of mpox vaccines have been delivered across the DRC, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Angola, Rwanda, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, the Central African Republic, Liberia, Kenya, and South Africa. Seven of these countries (DRC,…
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30May 2025 by Melissa Slogan
Mpox Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response

Mpox Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response

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Welcome to the fifteenth issue of our report, “Mpox: Transparency and Accountability for the Global Response.” In the wake of the U.S. health agencies’ communications and foreign aid freezes, we hope to serve as a resource for transparency on emerging outbreaks globally while continuing to provide in-depth analysis of the mpox response. We will provide brief updates on emerging outbreaks with the state of available medical countermeasures and diagnostics needed to effectively respond. Highlights:   Clade II mpox continues to spread in West Africa challenging the response to adapt to different transmission dynamics: Sierra Leone continues to report a significant growth in the number of new cases over the last three weeks. In the last week, the number of newly notified cases increased 18% (723 vs. 611) and the number of newly…
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