The main health threat in developing states today is not plagues or parasites but illnesses such as cancer and diabetes, noncommunicable diseases long associated with the rich world.

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.

Debrework Zewdie examines the Global Fund's impact on global health, its current crisis, and efforts to strengthen internal governance and improve risk management.

Debrework Zewdie examines the Global Fund's impact on global health, its current crisis, and efforts to strengthen internal governance and improve risk management.

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

This was a meeting of the Universal Health Coverage Roundtable series.

Interest and political will for universal health coverage is growing across the world. Through risk-pooling, medical care can be made accessible and affordable in poor and emerging-market countries.

An examination of the World Bank's evolution as a global health actor and Jim Yong Kim's career in public health raises questions about how he would handle the role of president, writes CFR's Laurie Garrett.

Michael W. Hodin states, "Now that the World Health Organization has stepped up and declared both Alzheimer's and aging populations as defining challenges of our era, it is time for our presidential candidates to also get serious and honest about health policy fit for this century's demographics truths."

As tobacco use proliferates in the developing world, an innovative incentive mechanism could supplement tobacco control efforts in low- and middle-income countries.

Yanzhong Huang discusses efforts toward universal health coverage in emerging economies.

Michael S. Chen, Margaret E. Kurk, and Yanzhong Huang engage in a discussion to see if there is a health care model that is socially desirable, politically acceptable, technologically feasible, and financially sustainable at a time when health care programs struggle with the rising costs, slacking economic growth, globalization of disease, aging populations, and the rise of noncommunicable diseases.

Michael Hodin says the path to fiscal sustainability lies in funding research programs and healthy aging initiatives that reduce the government outlays needed to care for an aging population.

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.