NEW!! In partnership with Strathmore University (Inst of Healthcare Mgmt), we hosted a policy dialogue on #COVID -19 and the challenging disease, demographic, and #health transitions that #Kenya is undergoing. Read more at bit.ly/KenyaDialogue Kaci Kennedy McDade Minahil Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social World Health Organization (WHO)

For The BMJ, I teamed up with David McAdams Duke Fuqua Duke Economics to ask: what can game theory teach us about ending the Covid-19 pandemic & being ready for the next big outbreak?

We also look at lessons from electricity reliability systems & NATO!

blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/10/21…

Join us THURSDAY (Oct 21) ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The inspirational Shashika Bandara was a grad student Duke Global Health, he was my teaching assistant for my policy course & then we hired him as a Research Associate after graduation

It’s wonderful seeing him editing this perspectives journal during his PhD McGill University. Send him your articles!

🇲🇲 Our center Duke CPIGH has a research partnership with Community Partners International in Myanmar

Today we published a new analysis of the challenging disease, demographic, & health financing transitions that the nation is undergoing Ashwini Deshpande Wenhui Mao

centerforpolicyimpact.org/myanmars-healt…

NEW! #Myanmar faces #healthtransitions in diseases, demography, domestic finance, & donor aid. Our report (led by Ashwini Deshpande Wenhui Mao, Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social & coauthors at Community Partners International) examines challenges & opportunities presented to the Myanmar #healthsystem : bit.ly/myanmarhealtht… World Health Organization (WHO)

TODAY ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Looking forward to an engaging discussion featuring Dr. Jonathan D Quick, CareMother, HelloBetter, Medic, Rescue by Flare, Simprints, dimagi, Andrea Taylor, Krishna Udayakumar, Amref Health Africa, & more! #IiHImpact #globalhealth #impact
⏳Register today: ow.ly/v43Z50GdKT0

Our team Duke CPIGH is working with WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean on an analysis of pandemic preparedness & response in fragile, conflict-affected & vulnerable (FCV) settings.

I'll be speaking at this webinar on 6 Sept, 5-7am EST.

Free & open to all!

Register at:

emro.who.int/pandemic-epide…

“It is health which is real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver”
-Mahatma Gandhi

Rich nations are hoarding hundreds of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses that will be wasted; this The BMJ report suggests that up to 3.8 billion doses could end up going to waste.

'It may seem counterintuitive to spend more money on health at a time of contracting economies and falling government revenues. In truth, circumstances are already forcing countries to do it.'

blogs.worldbank.org/health/using-c…

“I think this should basically end any scientific debate about whether masks can be effective in combating covid at the population level,” Jason Abaluck, an economist at Yale who helped lead the study, said.

washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/…

More on the cluster RCT of masking ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This indeed could be one of the most important RCTs of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing that masks reduce transmission.

Important thread on the gendered effects of return to school in the UK ⬇️

Our center's Kaci Kennedy McDade @mamahille & Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social are currently conducting a rapid analysis, supported by WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, on pandemic preparedness & response in conflict-affected & fragile settings, so this piece is timely.

Our director, @gyamey, will be on a panel next week on pandemic preparedness & response in fragile & conflict-affected settings, with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Sept 6, 11am-1pm Cairo time

Free & open to all; registration required

emro.who.int/pandemic-epide…

Our director's co-authored articles on re-opening universities during Covid:

2020, with Katie Mack:
time.com/5867395/will-u…

2020, with Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH:
bmj.com/content/370/bm…

2020, with Dr. Nahid Bhadelia:
time.com/5894204/univer…

2021, with Simon Williams:
blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/18…

'Wealthy countries, including the UK, have secured hundreds of millions of covid vaccines that they no longer need or cannot use. Now they stand accused of wasting lifesaving vaccines'

bmj.com/content/374/bm…