Global Health Program

The Council on Foreign Relations’ Global Health program provides independent, evidence-based analysis and recommendations to meet the health challenges of a globalized world. The program and affiliated fellows disseminate its findings to policy makers, opinion leaders, and the general public through briefings, meetings, books, op-eds, articles, interactives, and the award-winning Think Global Health online bulletin.

Program Experts

Thomas J. Bollyky

Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program

Luciana L. Borio

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Yanzhong Huang

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Stephanie Psaki

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Prashant Yadav

Senior Fellow for Global Health

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The Person Who Knows
Against the Rules With Michael Lewis
May 24, 2022
Featuring Thomas J. Bollyky
Stronger Public Health Systems and Uniform Messaging are Critical to Fight COVID-19
Vox
May 22, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
What Went Wrong at the CDC?
Bloomberg
May 20, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
What’s Going on With the Testing Requirement for Travel?
New York Times
May 19, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
Expert Take
The Collateral Damage in China’s COVID War
Foreign Affairs
May 17, 2022
By Yanzhong Huang
Meeting
Measuring What Matters: How to Monitor Effective Primary Health Care Provision
May 17, 2022
U.S. Deaths from COVID-19 Hit 1 Million, Less than 2 1/2 Years In
AP
May 16, 2022
Featuring Jennifer Nuzzo
How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans
The New York Times
May 15, 2022
Featuring Thomas J. Bollyky
How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans
New York Times
May 15, 2022
Featuring Thomas J. Bollyky
Expert Take
China Is Falling Deeper Into a Zero-COVID Trap
Barron's
May 12, 2022
By Yanzhong Huang
One Million Deaths
New York Times
May 11, 2022
Featuring Thomas J. Bollyky
COVID-19 Booster Rollout Needs a Reboot to Save Older Americans, Experts Say
NBC
May 11, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
Untapped Global Vaccine Stash Raises Risks of New COVID Variants
Bloomberg
May 11, 2022
Featuring Thomas J. Bollyky
Hearing on Global Food Security Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
C-SPAN
May 11, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
Why a COVID Vaccine Mandate for N.Y.C. Schoolchildren Is Unlikely Soon
New York Times
May 10, 2022
Featuring Jennifer Nuzzo
Meeting
Virtual Roundtable: State-Sponsored Disinformation
May 5, 2022
Are We in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave?
Atlantic
April 29, 2022
Featuring Jennifer Nuzzo
Expert Take
Oral Rehydration Salts, Cholera, and the Unfinished Urban Health Agenda
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
April 29, 2022
By Thomas J. Bollyky
Before Washington’s ‘Nerd Prom,’ Lots of Risk-Benefit Calculation
New York Times
April 27, 2022
Featuring Jennifer Nuzzo
Trust a 'Most Precious Resource' Critical in Singapore's Covid-19 Response: PM Lee Hsien Loong
The Straits Times
April 22, 2022
Featuring Thomas J. Bollyky
While the Transporation Mask Mandate Ruling is Appealed, is Public Health at Risk?
NPR Morning Edition
April 21, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
Americans Divided on Judge’s Decision to End Mask Mandate
Hill
April 20, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
COVID Travel Mask Ruling Threatens to Tie CDC’s Hands on Future Pandemics
Financial Times
April 20, 2022
Featuring Tom Frieden
Expert Take
Global Public Goods for Health in a Divided World
High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism
April 20, 2022
By David P. Fidler

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