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February 19, 2019

Election 2020
Meet Marianne Williamson, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Update: Marianne Williamson announced on January 10, 2020, that she was ending her campaign. Marianne Williamson doesn’t have the traditional background of a presidential candidate. She has never …

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February 18, 2016

Global
Generic Drug Regulation and the Politics of Pharmaceutical Pricing

Joshua Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University join CFR’s Thomas Bollyky to discuss the role that generic drug regulation might play…

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June 3, 2020

COVID-19
Female Leadership During COVID-19

Sandra Pepera, senior associate and director for Gender, Women and Democracy at the National Democratic Institute, discusses female leadership during COVID-19. Learn more about CFR's Religion and …

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February 8, 2016

Health
Zika Virus and Reproductive Health Access in Latin America

In response to the rapid spread of the Zika virus and the increasing number of cases linking the virus to microcephaly—a birth defect frequently characterized by a small head and incomplete brain dev…

Rosana Vieira Alves holds her 4-month-old daughter Luana Vieira, who was born with microcephaly, pictured here at their house on February 3, 2016 in Brazil, which is investigating more than 4,000 suspected cases of this birth disorder, which may be linked to the Zika outbreak. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

November 7, 2017

Health
The Changing Demographics of Global Health

Population growth and aging are fueling a spectacular rise in noncommunicable diseases, such as cancers and cardiovascular diseases, in poor countries that are ill-prepared to handle them. 

A man comforts his fiancée, a patient at a breast cancer clinic in Tehran, Iran. With little access to preventive and primary care, working-age people in poorer nations are more likely to develop and receive late diagnoses for breast cancer and other NCDs.