Foundations
Who’s funding WHO?
Michael Day posed this question as the title to a piece he wrote in the BMJ five years ago. Then, Day was reporting on a relatively modest sum of money ($10,000) finding its way to the World Health Organisation (WHO) from the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) via a third party charity. I pose it now not because [...]
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Health Financing: What Role does the International Community Play?
In this month’s Health Policy & Planning, Eduardo Gomez and my paper on health financing in Brazil, Russia and India is published. Given that Amanda Glassman at the Center for Global Development and others have pointed out that this is the year where attention will be put on donor aid flows and domestic financing, I [...]
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Wanted: Marketing Partner for Lonely, Neglected Problem: Road Traffic Injuries
At least once a week I almost get hit on my bike, usually in unique and creative ways- a tourist crossing the street looking the wrong way, the crazy Oxford bus drivers (no further details needed), passengers opening the car door into the bike lane without looking, another bike overtaking me. Today was no exception [...]
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The Gates Foundation: Where to Next?
the Gates Foundation can have more impact by focusing on its comparative advantage, long-term scientific and technological innovation, rather than trying to be everything to everyone
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