The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. October 27, 2022 By Nellie Bristol While global health experts have long urged heightened attention and funding toward pandemic preparedness, COVID-19 showed the world remained woefully ill equipped. Lacking an established system to
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. October 13, 2022 By Nellie Bristol The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Health Economics Programme (HEP) is fast tracking research on the cost effectiveness of oral therapeutics to ensure data are
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. September 30, 2022 By Nellie Bristol Under COVID-19’s current course, yearly vaccination focused on high risk populations is most likely to prevent the most hospitalizations and deaths and prove more cost effective than
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. September 15, 2022 By Nellie Bristol Ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia will partner with a new public-private collaboration to scale up COVID-19 test and treat operations for high risk populations,
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 31, 2022 By Nellie Bristol Infectious disease physician and Duke Professor Paul Pronyk remembers watching helplessly in the late 1990s as HIV-exposed patients entered a clinic in South Africa where he could
The Launch and Scale Speedometer blog series. August 26, 2022 By Victoria Hsiung and Wenhui Mao MONKEYPOX ISSUE BRIEF The ongoing global outbreak of monkeypox is poised to test public health infrastructure across the globe. Monkeypox, a viral infection in
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 18, 2022 By Nellie Bristol While the world developed and distributed COVID-19 vaccines with unprecedented speed, the required emergency focus, coupled with response inequities and disruptions caused by the pandemic itself, took
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 11, 2022 By Katharine Olson and Nellie Bristol COVID-19 has disrupted clinical care and supply chains throughout the world, testing the resilience and flexibility of health systems everywhere. Services for those living
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. August 3, 2022 By Talkmore Maruta, Senior Biosafety and Biosecurity Officer, Africa CDC and Nellie Bristol, COVID GAP With its rapidly growing urban population, high burden of infectious disease, and widespread gaps in
The Global Accountability Platform (COVID GAP) blog series. July 21, 2022 By Nellie Bristol COVID-19 created a real-world stress test for pandemic preparedness and response. While there were some successes, many systems showed dangerous faults. The authors of national health emergency
