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) |

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 |

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 |

COVID-19 vaccination rates are low in PNG; in fact, some of – if not, the – lowest in East Asia Pacific. Supply of vaccines was an issue at first, and issues with health infrastructure are an…

Christopher Hoy, Terence Wood, Ellen Moscoe |

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 |

As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, we are about a year into an unprecedented health and economic crisis that has destroyed lives and livelihoods globally and in the East Asia and…

Victoria Kwakwa |

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 |

Since early May 2020, many countries in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have conducted high-frequency household phone surveys to monitor the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 and to inform…

Lydia (Ypsse) Kim, Maria Ana Lugo, Ikuko Uochi |