The Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN) promotes collaboration among health practitioners and policymakers from 36 countries to co-develop solutions for pressing health…

Martin Lutalo, Ajay Tandon, Kate Mandeville, Mahlet Gizaw |

India has now shown that an emerging country can also become a world-class contender in the crucial biopharma sector, developing drugs and vaccines for diseases that affect the developing world.…

Rami Galal, Andres F. Garcia |

This blog presents revised diet affordability data from Food Prices for Nutrition. These data incorporate updated income distributions and international poverty lines based on 2017 purchasing…

Yan Bai, Edie Purdie, Maurice Nsabimana, Marko Rissanen |

In 2021, five million children died before reaching their fifth birthday. Over half of these deaths, 2.7 million, occurred among children aged 1-59 months, while the remainder, 2.3 million,…

Emi Suzuki, Haruna Kashiwase |

The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) continues data collection for the Uganda High-Frequency Phone Survey (UHFPS). The survey was initially used to track the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on…

Aziz Atamanov, Frédéric Cochinard, John Ilukor, Talip Kilic, Giulia Ponzini |

Healthy people build healthy economies. Investing in health develops human capital and promotes a quicker, more inclusive economic recovery.

Nidda Yusuf, Karrar Karrar |

Today, as we inch ever closer to the 2030 deadline for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) remains an unrealized ambition for many countries.

Rialda Kovacevic, Megumi Maruyama, David Wilson |

What can Kenya do to make further strides on its quest toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and achieving upper-middle income country aspirations?

Laura Di Giorgio, Katelyn Jison Yoo, Thomas Maina |

PHC-centered integrated care for an aging population

Xiaohui Hou, Jigyasa Sharma, Sana Haider |

The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens the uneven recovery of East Asia and Pacific. The invasion comes on top of the economic distress caused by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic, the financial…

Aaditya Mattoo, Ekaterine T. Vashakmadze, Ergys Islamaj |