Laurie Garrett says the Global Fund's drive to ensure sustainability and efficiency means that it may not be able to meet its commitments to combat disease.

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.

This U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report on global health is dated October 13, 2011.

Yanzhong Huang discusses China's efforts toward achieving universal healthcare.

This session was a meeting of the Emerging Powers in Global Health Governance roundtable series.

This was a session of the Universal Health Coverage Roundtable Series.

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

President Obama gave these remarks at George Washington University on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011.

Thomas Bollyky examines strategies to improve access to neglected disease treatments and sustainably meet the treatment needs of the world's poorest people.

Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool discusses South Africa's role in the changing landscape of global health governance.

As the world's population surpasses seven billion, CFR Senior Fellow for Global Health Yanzhong Huang identifies the variety of ways in which different global regions are impacted by population growth. Huang argues that a region- and issue-specific approach is needed to address population issues.

Experts discuss current global vaccination efforts in conjunction with the launch of CFR's Vaccine-Preventable Outbreak Interactive Map.

In their single-minded pursuit of economic growth, China's leaders have long overlooked public health—which, by some measures, is now worse than under Mao.

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

Reuters investigates the legitimacy of North Korea's appeals for massive food aid that have gone mostly unanswered by a skeptical international community.

The 2011 high-level UN meeting on non-communicable diseases fell far short of the major funding and targets agreed to at a similar meeting on HIV/AIDS a decade ago, which CFR's Thomas Bollyky says indicates a need for different actors and approaches on chronic diseases.

Why is the UN convening a summit-level meeting on illnesses like cancer and diabetes? This CFR guide looks at how these non-communicable diseases have amplified the burdens on developing states and the global threat they pose.

NCDs such as cancer and heart disease are becoming leading causes of death in the developing world and will be the focus of a September UN meeting. But health experts and others are divided about how much funding should go into a global campaign aimed at preventing NCDs and whether infectious disease programs will suffer as a result.

The World Health Organization has gained prominence for its success in battling diseases such as polio and malaria, but is challenged by an unwieldy mission and strained resources in a landscape of competing organizations.

This declaration, a draft resolution on noncommunicable diseases, is dated September 16, 2011. It was released before the UN General Assembly meeting on September 19-20, 2011.