Universal Health Coverage: The Future of Healthcare Reform?
This was a meeting of the Universal Health Coverage Roundtable series.
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.
This was a meeting of the Universal Health Coverage Roundtable series.
Experts discuss current global vaccination efforts in conjunction with the launch of CFR's Vaccine-Preventable Outbreak Interactive Map.
This roundtable, Crisis in the Horn: Can We Prevent One Million Deaths Today and Worse Famines Tomorrow?, was part of CFR's Global Health program.
Seth Berkley, president, chief executive officer, and founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and incoming chief executive officer of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) joined us for this unique insider look at his plans for the future of GAVI, and its position in the larger landscape of global health.
Experts discuss how to equip and mobilize churches and faith communities to respond to the needs of those affected by HIV/AIDS in positive ways that target the stigmas associated with the pandemic, while improving access to HIV/AIDS treatment. Bishop Charles E. Blake, chairman and CEO of Save Africa's Children, emphasizes that the black church must emulate the Biblical leader Joseph's actions, providing humanitarian assistance to brothers and sisters struggling in Africa, the "homeland."
Join the experts discussing potential solutions to the challenges of ensuring food and drug safety in the global era.
This session was from the Global Health Program meeting, Financing Global Health 2010.
This session was part of the CFR roundtable, Meeting the Challenge of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, made possible by the generous support of MSD.
Session I of the Council On Foreign Relations Symposium Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics and Foreign Policy. Subject: The Science
Session III of a Council on Foreign Relations Symposium on Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics And Foreign Policy. Subject: Foreign Policy
Laurie A. Garrett speaks at CFR on the global response to the H1N1 virus.
A Council on Foreign Relations media conference call about the current state of the swine flu outbreak.
A panel discussion on how American foreign aid will be affected by the global economic crisis.
The speakers discuss American interests in the countries that President George W. Bush will visit in February 2008.
Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Executive Director of PEPFAR, and New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden discuss the debate over male circumcision and if this procedure is the key to stopping the global AIDS epidemic.
Bruce Gellin and Michael Osterholm, with his recent article in Foreign Affairs article, “Unprepared for a Pandemic”, discuss the current state of pandemic influenza given the recent human deaths in Egypt how the virus has reemerged in birds in Asia .
CFR Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett and Helene Gaye, president and CEO of CARE discuss where the leadership is in global health and the challenges the field faces.
58 East 68th Street
New York, New York 10065
CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health and author of I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks.
+1.212.434.9749
This interactive map visually plots diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines. The Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations has been tracking news reports on these outbreaks since the fall of 2008.
"I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks"was awarded both Gold (Science) and Silver (Current Affairs) medals in the national eLIT Awards competition in May 2012.
See more at Laurie Garrett's personal website, lauriegarrett.com.