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Importing Generic Drugs Could Ease U.S. Shortages

Jan 17, 2025 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger |Allison Krugman |Thomas J. Bollyky

Syphilis rates have been rising in the United States for 10 years. If untreated, the disease poses grim risks, from heart and brain damage to blindness to miscarriage and infant death. Yet when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a shortage of benzathine penicillin G—the only approved treatment for pregnant women—in 2023, the agency waited nine months before importing a version of the drug from a French pharmaceutical company approved for use in Europe.
The 10 Americas: How Geography, Race, and Income Shape U.S. Life Expectancy

Dec 10, 2024 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Thomas J. Bollyky |Laura Dwyer-Lindgren |Ali H Mokdad |Chloe Searchinger

The differences in U.S. life expectancy are so large it's as if the population lives in separate Americas instead of one. Nearly two decades ago, a team of researchers published the landmark "Eight Americas" study, which examined drivers of U.S. health inequities between 1982 and 2001 by dividing the U.S. population into groups based on geography, race, income, and other factors.
Health Policy Takeaways from First U.S. Presidential Debate

Jun 28, 2024 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger

by Chloe Searchinger June 28, 2024 News analysts perceived Thursday's presidential debate as a hearty victory for former President Donald Trump over a faltering President Joe Biden, setting off a cascade of panic within the Democratic Party that is overshadowing the policy discussion the two candidates held.
The New Amendments to the International Health Regulations

Jun 4, 2024 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger

The seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (WHA) announced on June 1 that it had reached consensus over amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) on the last day of its annual meeting in Geneva. Changes to the legally binding policy—or instrument—have been negotiated by World Health Organization (WHO) member states over the past two years alongside but separately from a proposed pandemic agreement.
Why Pandemic Agreement Negotiations Failed to Land

May 24, 2024 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger |Nsikan Akpan

After more than two years of discussion and negotiations, the representatives for 194 nations failed to finalize a draft of the Pandemic Agreement, an international accord meant to fix the weaknesses and global inequities in pandemic preparedness that COVID-19 revealed.
In Economic Security, Trade-Offs Abound

May 8, 2024 | cfr.org | Thomas J. Bollyky |Chloe Searchinger |Alice C. Hill |Zongyuan Liu |Benn Steil

A regular series on the choices faced by international economic policymakersDifficult Trade-Offs Hinder U.S. Industrial Policy on Health Thomas J. Bollyky and Chloe Searchinger More From Our Experts During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world ran out of everything.
Unsung Heroes: How Elder Care Leans on Singapore’s Women

Dec 7, 2023 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger

As the world ages at a faster pace than ever, driven by increased life expectancy and dwindling fertility rates, few countries have received more praise from the international development community for responding to that demographic shift than Singapore. Faced with one of the most rapidly aging populations, the island city-state is on track to have a quarter of its citizens over the age of sixty-five by 2030.
U.S. Supreme Court Challenge to Abortion Pills Could Boost Illegal Imports

Apr 21, 2023 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger

After hearing oral arguments last week, the Supreme Court appeared dubious of the plaintiff's legal challenge to the abortion pill in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) v. Hippocratic Alliance of Medicine, the latest major abortion case since Dobbs v. Jackson overturned the constitutional guarantee to an abortion.
Pandemic Agreement Negotiations Begin Final Stretch: What To Expect

Feb 2, 2023 | thinkglobalhealth.org | Chloe Searchinger |Alejandra Martinez |Alejandra Martinez

by Chloe Searchinger and Alejandra Martinez April 20, 2024 The latest draft of the Pandemic Agreement, an international accord under the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) intended to address the shortcomings of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, was leaked on Wednesday.