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1 month ago | 
brookings.edu | Ipchita Bharali |Gavin Yamey |Osondu Ogbuoji
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a 90-day freeze on foreign development assistance while launching a top-to-bottom review of all aid programs. The order was followed by a stop-work directive that paused most U.S. aid-supported projects worldwide, with only a few exceptions. The consequences for global health were profound since the United States is the largest provider of health aid.
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2 months ago | 
sg.news.yahoo.com | Gavin Yamey
On his first day back in office, President Trump ordered a sweeping 90-day spending freeze on almost all U.S. foreign aid, initially making exceptions only for military funding to Egypt and Israel and emergency food aid. The “stop-work order” in the directive had immediate consequences for people’s health and wellbeing. HIV clinics around the world funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a highly successful aid program launched by George W.
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2 months ago | 
time.com | Gavin Yamey
IdeasBy Gavin YameyFebruary 3, 2025 12:56 PM ESTYamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global HealthOn his first day back in office, President Trump ordered a sweeping 90-day spending freeze on almost all U.S. foreign aid, initially making exceptions only for military funding to Egypt and Israel and emergency food aid.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
time.com | Gavin Yamey |Dean T Jamison |Justina O Seyi-Olajide
IdeasBy Gavin Yamey, Dean T.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Gavin Yamey |Shingai Machingaidze |Hymowitz professor
Gavin Yamey, Hymowitz professor of global health and professor of public policy1, Shingai Machingaidze, global health consultant21Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University2South AfricaThis year has seen a double dose of optimism in the field of HIV prevention.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
time.com | Jirair Ratevosian |Gavin Yamey
Ideas By Jirair Ratevosian and Gavin Yamey October 2, 2024 8:00 AM EDT Ratevosian is Hock Fellow at the Duke Global Health Institute and former senior advisor to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health As diplomats and officials from around the world gathered in New York last week for the annual United Nations General...
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
time.com | Gavin Yamey |Marco Schäferhoff |Shingai Machingaidze
Ideas By Gavin Yamey, Marco Schäferhoff and Shingai Machingaidze September 6, 2024 4:08 PM EDT Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health Schäferhoff is the co-founder and managing director of Open Consultants, a global health consultancy based in Berlin Machingaidze is an epidemiologist and global health consultant with significant experience developing and leading public health and...
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thinkglobalhealth.org | David McAdams |Gavin Yamey
When a new pathogen with pandemic potential emerges in a low- or middle-income country (LMIC), sharing that pathogen's genetic sequencing data (GSD) with the world allows others, predominantly based in high-income countries (HICs), to rapidly develop vaccines against the rising threat. Should vaccine manufacturers be mandated to share some of the resulting doses with LMICs?
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
time.com | Jonathan Quick |Gavin Yamey |Eszter Rimányi
Ideas By Jonathan Quick, Gavin Yamey and Eszter Rimányi August 9, 2024 11:15 AM EDT Quick is an adjunct professor with the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University and author of the 2018 book, The End of Epidemics Yamey is a physician and professor of global health and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health Rimányi is a recent epidemiology graduate from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the first author of the...
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
bmj.com | Gavin Yamey |South San Francisco |Hymowitz professor |Kaveh Hoda
Gavin Yamey, Hymowitz professor of global health and public policy1, Kaveh Hoda, gastroenterologist and hepatologist2 1Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC 2Kaiser Permanente, South San Francisco, California President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election campaign ended on the afternoon of 21 July 2024, not with a bang but a whimper: he posted a brief letter on X (formerly Twitter) announcing he would stand down.1 Even before his...
