The rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases is pressuring countries and health systems in the Caribbean at a rate of epidemic proportions.

Lilia Burunciuc, Timothy Antoine |

In this blog, we highlight two projects that leveraged data-driven policymaking processes and simulations.

Kerina Wang, KCP Program Management Unit (KCP PMU) |

New Evidence from Telephone Surveys Provides Insights for Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake in the Caribbean

Amy Margolies, Jacobus de Hoop, Phillis Kim, Anna Luisa Paffhausen, Laura Di Giorgio |

There is no downplaying the blow that the war has dealt to food systems, already fragile from two years of COVID-19 disruptions, climate extremes, currency devaluations, and worsening fiscal…

Mari Elka Pangestu |

Public health decision-makers are left with few options to understand the spread of the virus due to the rapid transmission of the COVID-19 Omicron variant. This has led to a new phase of the…

Jeremy Veillard, Carlo Amadei, Jean-Martin Brault |

After Sri Lanka, Ecuador ranks currently as the world’s second country to administer the highest daily number of doses per 100 people. To put it simply: hundreds of people in Ecuador will have…

Marcelo Bortman, Aakash Mohpal |

In the case of COVID-19, the genetic footprint of the virus is shed in the feces of infected individuals and transferred into the wastewater. By measuring the concentration of the viral materials…

Carlo Alberto Amadei, Jean-Martin Brault, Jeremy Veillard, Aakash Mohpal |

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on public health, societies, and economies around the world: it could push up to 150 million people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021.…

David Malpass |