Osondu Ogbuoji

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.

Jul 22, 2024 | brookings.edu | Gavin Yamey |Shingai Machingaidze |Osondu Ogbuoji |Marco Schäferhoff

Investments in global health research and development (R&D) have led to the launches of many life-saving health technologies. Twenty years ago, for example, we had no malaria vaccine. Today, two effective malaria vaccines are being rolled out across Africa. And the future looks bright: The pipeline of candidate products for most global health conditions is more robust than ever (though some neglected diseases, such as leprosy, scabies, and trachoma, still have too few candidate products).

Nov 1, 2023 | gh.bmj.com | Wenhui Mao |Kaci Kennedy McDade |Osondu Ogbuoji |Gavin Yamey

Our main analysis examines dyadic aid disbursement between 2009 and 2017. Our unit of analysis is an aid disbursement from a donor to a recipient for a given year; for example, funding from the USA to Kenya for health for the year 2009. We began our analysis in 2009 because Gavi started reporting to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2009, and the latest year of data available for most variables is 2018.