CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health Laurie Garrett discusses the rising vulnerabilities to the world's medicine and drug supply as a result of the increasingly globalized supply chain, and presents six steps the G8 and G20 states should take to combat the growing problem of counterfeit and substandard medicines and ensure the reliability of the world's drug and vaccine supply.

Laurie Garrett discusses the current state of global health programs.

Most countries in the world have moved toward provision of systems of universal health coverage, enhancing affordability and access to medical care. Even as the U.S. Supreme Court debates legal standards for Americans, this report finds that risk-pooling is essential for affordable access to medical care in poor and emerging-market countries.

Laurie Garrett discusses the current state of global health programs.

Cubans want the United States to lift its long-standing embargo on Cuba, but any serious easing of trade and travel restrictions between the two countries may badly harm Cuba's health-care industry.

Laurie Garrett reviews the complex social, political, and financial issues at play ahead of the U.S. presidential election and their implications for domestic and global health programs.

Laurie Garrett reviews Peter Piot's No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.

Laurie Garrett discusses the issue of how to save millions of people from toxic, substandard, contaminated, mislabeled, and dangerous drugs, medicines, and vaccines.

Tikki Pang and Laurie Garrett argue that the World Health Organization is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency, and to ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms.

Laurie Garrett discusses the danger of excluding the public from the man-made H5N1 flu debate.

Laurie Garrett says that as recent events have put the future of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in doubt, a critical, dangerous moment has emerged for all of global health.

Laurie Garrett discusses the mistakes and misjudgments made by government officials in response to the anthrax attacks of 2001 and provides recommendations for what should be done now.

Laurie Garrett discusses the public policy implications of bird flu and bioterrorism.

Laurie Garrett discusses the arrival of man-made bird flu virus and the meaning behind a U.S. government advisory board's request that scientific journals not publish details about the virus's creation.

Laurie Garrett says man-made killer bird flu is now a reality and asks if governments can--and should--try to stop it.

Laurie Garrett discusses the FRONTLINE documentary, "The Anthrax Letters."

Laurie Garrett discusses the tenth anniversary of the post-9/11 anthrax mailings.

A monthly e-newsletter with in-depth analysis of events and new developments in global health, from CFR's Global Health Program.

Laurie Garrett and El'Haum Alavian discuss the challenge, for the world's richest nations, of assisting emerging economies in their transition to self-reliance in obtaining public goods, and finding solutions that guarantee equitable access to health for the entire family of nations.

A monthly e-newsletter with in-depth analysis of events and new developments in global health, from CFR's Global Health Program.