The Commission on Smart Global Health focuses on several critical challenges. Your unique perspective on the issues listed below will enrich the Commission's work and improve its final report. Read these blogs, submit your ideas using the comment forms below each posting, and be part of the movement for smart global health.
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Infectious Disease
Posts related to infectious diseases, including, HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and others. Read More >
Pandemic Preparedness
H1N1 and pandemic preparedness updates, highlighting expert Phil Nieburg, Senior Fellow, CSIS. Read More >
Humanitarian Aid
Posts related to Humanitarian Aid. Includes a reports from Senator Frist on his recent trip to Haiti and blogs on disaster relief. Read More >
Maternal & Child Health
Posts related to Maternal and Child Health issues. Read More >
Water & Sanitation
Posts related to water, sanitation, and hygiene. Read More >
Healthy Dialogues Blog
The Healthy Dialogues blog strives to create a conversation every month about a current topic in health. We pick key experts, from both inside and outside CSIS, to answer one question each week. We hope that by stringing these answers together, an interesting and complex picture of the topic will be created. Read More >
Fault Lines
CSIS Global Health Policy Center launched a year-long debate series -- ‘Fault Lines in Global Health’ -- intended to generate an informed, civil, bipartisan, and open airing of opinion on critical global health controversies. Read More >
Noncommunicable Diseases
Posts related to noncommunicable diseases Read More >
Kenya Trip
Members of the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy, led by commission cochairs Helene Gayle and Admiral William Fallon traveled to Kenya for a three-day mission, in August 2009. The delegation met with a broad range of actors including U.S. officials, representatives of the Kenyan government, public health workers, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, and individual beneficiaries of U.S. assistance. Read More >
Reflections from J. Stephen Morrison
The CSIS Global Health Policy Center (GHPC) is launching a new series with J. Stephen Morrison, Director of the GHPC, will be periodically offering his analysis of current issues pertinent to global health and policy. Read More >
Measurement & Accountability
Posts related to Measurement and Accountability. Read More >
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Blog
- Protection of Health Care in Armed and Civil Conflict
Assaults on hospitals and medical personnel have long been part of the landscape of armed and civil conflict. In the past year, though, various international actions may better protect health services. - The American Faith Community’s Contributions to Global Health
The Global Health Policy Center hosted a presentation highlighting the contributions faith-based-organizations make to global health including the fight against HIV/AIDS. - Polio Eradication in India
India's inspiring polio eradication will depend ultimately on how the country's health leaders consolidate their victory & how they embed the institutional sources into the country’s remarkably diverse health system. - Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: What It Is, Why It’s Here, And How We Should Respond
The recent outbreak of the so-called totally-drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in India raises serious international health concerns. - The End of AIDS?
Watch J. Stephen Morrison, Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, discuss the "end of aids" and the 2012 global AIDS conference - Report: Terra Nova: How to Achieve a Successful PEPFAR Transition in South Africa
A period of major change is unfolding in health and HIV services in South Africa, carrying opportunities and risks. This report finds that the United States can find feasible, flexible ways to support this process. - Report: Role(s) of Vaccines and Immunization Programs in Global Disease Prevention
This report focuses on the “nuts and bolts” of the complex biological, epidemiologic, and risk management concepts for currently available childhood vaccines.
Podcast
- Interview with Kay Warren of Saddleback Church on the American Faith Community and HIV/AIDS Efforts
- Interview with Ken Hackett of Catholic Relief Services on the Faith Community’s and Global Health
- Interview with Dr. Winston Yu of the World Bank and Johns Hopkins University
- Interview with Chris Holmes of USAID on Global Water Challenges
- Interview with Dr. Jon Andrus of PAHO on Non-Communicable Diseases in the Western Hemisphere