Month: October 2019

On September 19, 2019, our Center Director Gavin Yamey gave a video presentation at the 5th Annual Public Policy Conference in the Philippines. The conference was called “Navigating the New Globalization: Local Actions for Global Challenges.” Dr. Yamey’s presentation was on financing global public goods for health.  The blog below is an updated version of his talk. I am delighted to have the opportunity to talk to you today about financing of what we at the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health call “global functions,” and what the World Health Organization (WHO) is calling global common goods for health. The work that I will be presenting today is part of a new program of work led by the WHO on Financing Common Goods for Health, published in a special…

Our Center Director Gavin Yamey is chairing the Advisory Board for the new Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss.  Yesterday, at the first meeting of the Commission, hosted by Duke University, he gave a 10-minute talk on what makes a successful international global health or development commission. Below we post his talk. Last year, I led the writing of a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Health Policy & Planning called “How to Convene an International Health or Development Commission: Ten Key Steps.” The authors were all involved in Global Health 2035: A World Converging in a Generation, aka the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (the CIH). Three of us—myself, Larry Summers, and Dean Jamison—were commissioners and one of us, Jessica Brinton, was from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,…