J. Stephen Morrison

Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

Harvard Global Health Institute (Prof A Jha MD, S Moon PhD, L R Woskie MSc, J A Leigh MPH), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Prof A K Jha, S Moon, L R Woskie, J A Leigh), and Harvard Kennedy School (S Moon), Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh (Prof D Sridhar DPhil); Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA (M A Pate MD); Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, New York, NY, USA (C Clinton DPhil); Medecins Sans Frontieres, New York , NY, USA (S Delaunay MA); Campaign for Good Governance, Freetown, Sierra Leone (V Edwin MA); Action Contre La Faim International , Monrovia, Liberia (M Fallah PhD); Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN, USA (Prof D P Fidler JD); Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY, USA (L Garrett PhD); University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA (Prof E Goosby MD); Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA (Prof L Gostin JD); Chatham House, London, UK (Prof D L Heymann MD); Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada (Prof K Lee DPhil); Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Prof G M Leung MD); Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, USA (J S Morrison PhD); AIDS Executive summary The west African Ebola epidemic that began in 2013 exposed deep inadequacies in the national and international institutions responsible for protecting the public from the far-reaching human, social, economic, and political consequences of infectious disease outbreaks. The Ebola epidemic raised a crucial question: what reforms are needed to mend the fragile global system for outbreak prevention and response, rebuild confi dence, and prevent future disasters? To address this question, the Harvard Global Health Institute and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine jointly launched the Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola. Panel members from academia, think tanks, and civil society have collectively reviewed the worldwide response to the Ebola outbreak. After diffi cult and lengthy deliberation, we concluded that major reforms are both warranted and feasible. The Panel’s conclusions off er a roadmap of ten interrelated recommendations across four thematic areas:

Global health funding: a glass half full?

With global health likely to be high on the agenda of this years G8 Summit starting today in St Petersburg Russia it is worth taking stock of international assistance funding trends and prospects. High-level attention to global health has risen markedly over the past two decades particularly since 2000. One concrete measure of the priority placed on health by donors is the level of funding provided for the developing world. Previous analyses have shown that funding has been on the rise. Our analysis of data from 2000 to 2004 found a continuation of this trend with donor funding for global health approaching US

Post-Ebola reforms: ample analysis, inadequate action

14 billion in 2004--in part good news as donors seem to have heeded the global health call. Still funding for health falls far short of global need as estimated in part by the WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health which found that donors would need to provide an additional

Somalia and Sudan's Race to the Fore in Africa

22 billion a year by 2007 and

The African Pandemic Hits Washington

31 billion a year by 2015 to help finance the scaling-up of essential interventions health-system development and research and development devoted to the diseases of the poor. In addition investments in health seem to be uneven raising cautionary notes about the global communitys ability to meet let alone sustain financing needs over time. (excerpt)

United to Fight HIV/AIDS?

Reports on the response to Ebola broadly agree on what needs to be done to deal with disease outbreaks. But Suerie Moon and colleagues find that the world is not yet prepared for future outbreaks

Global health partnerships: Are they working?

U.S. calculations regarding Africa have shifted dramatically. The Horn is only the initial priority zone of action in battling global terrorism in Africa. Elsewhere on the continent, a significant amount of other unfinished business also awaits Washingtons attention.

Expectations for the United Nations high-level meeting on noncommunicable diseases

The AIDS tragedy will reshape Africa and inexorably dominate U.S. foreign policy toward the continent. How we engage on the soft global issues stemming from HIV and AIDS in Africa will inevitably shape our future response elsewhere in the world.

Will Darfur Steal the Olympic Spotlight

Two critical challenges stand in the way of U.S. efforts to lead the international response to HIV/AIDS successfully; the UN is uniquely qualified to help find solutions for each.

A chronicle of hope and promise: The world as it was, as it is, and as it can be

An assessment of global health collaborations highlights the advantages of synergies between global health research and training programs.