Investors seem to love the World Bank's new pandemic insurance. Should donors love it too? 

Between September 25-27, IHME hosted a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the four-part publication of the global burden of disease study in The Lancet by drawing together policy makers from various global health organizations and GBD collaborators from around the world.

In this blog post, I briefly introduce the rise of health economics in the 20th century and a few methods for economically measuring health investment as a means to provide some context to current health care financing debates.

When did PPPs become a model for global health investment, and how popular are they today?

A recent deal with the Trumps has sparked criticism of the World Bank. But attention should be focused elsewhere...

After he won World Health Organization’s Director General position, Dr. Tedros Adhanom asserted that universal health coverage would be the central political concept of his tenure. So what does that mean?

In September 2016, a new major project funded by the Wellcome Trust titled ‘The Economic Gaze: The World Bank’s Influence in Global Pubic Health’ was launched at the Global Health Governance Programme in Edinburgh. In this blog post, I outline our central research questions and the relevance of the project to both academia and policy.

What are public-private partnerships for health, and why are they becoming increasingly important in global health?

This week, health ministers from across the world are making the yearly pilgrimage to Geneva for the 70th World Health Assembly. In this blog, I take a step back and focus on three big issues in our current global health system that the new leadership of the WHO will face...