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The Hill: The world will starve if we keep ignoring disease outbreaks Elwyn Grainger-Jones, executive director of the CGIAR System Organization (6/4). IPS: Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Now? Lawrence Surendra, chemical engineer, environmental economist, and scholar in residence at the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (6/4). The Lancet: Salient lessons from…

Bloomberg Law: U.S. Agencies Work With WHO Despite Trump Threat to Cut Ties “Top U.S. health officials said they are still working closely with the World Health Organization even after President Donald Trump said last week he planned to terminate the U.S. relationship with the group for being too deferential…

Al Jazeera: Vaccines alliance raises $8.8bn for global immunization plans “Governments, companies, and individuals around the world have pledged $8.8bn for a global vaccines alliance to help immunization programs stalled by the coronavirus pandemic and support the development and distribution of a potential COVID-19 vaccine. The virtual meeting on Thursday…

New York Times: Coronavirus Rips Into Regions Previously Spared “For months, one enduring mystery of the coronavirus was why some of the world’s most populous countries, with rickety health systems and crowded slums, had managed to avoid the brunt of an outbreak that was burning through relatively affluent societies in…

AFRICA AP: U.N. chief: COVID-19 compounds dire situation in Mali, Sahel (Lederer, 6/5). Devex: Africa CDC rolls out strategy to ramp up coronavirus testing (Jerving, 6/5). NPR: Who Do People Trust For Coronavirus Info? In Zambia, It’s Nuns On The Radio (Baskar, 6/4). Reuters: WHO says its representative told to…

BMJ Opinion: What Trump’s threat to de-fund the WHO means for the United States and the world Adam Kamradt-Scott, associate professor/reader in international security studies at the University of Sydney (6/4). Science Speaks: The World Health Organization and the U.S.: A brief history of collaboration Kenneth G. Castro, professor in…

BMJ: Investing in the health of girls and women: a best buy for sustainable development Michelle Remme, research lead at United Nations University International Institute for Global Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and colleagues (6/2). Council on Foreign Relations: Ebola Emerges in Northwestern DRC, WHO Responds John Campbell, Ralph Bunche…

Brookings: Developing countries can respond to COVID-19 in ways that are swift, at scale, and successful Larry Cooley, nonresident senior fellow, and Johannes F. Linn, nonresident senior fellow, both with Global Economy and Development at Brookings (6/4). Brookings: Ensuring learning continuity for every African child in the time of COVID-19…

USAID: Digital Briefing On USAID’s Ongoing Development Priorities And COVID-19 Assistance Response In Africa During this digital briefing, Kenneth Staley, USAID Global Malaria coordinator and COVID-19 Task Force leader, and Christopher Runyan, USAID senior coordinator for the Bureau for Africa, discuss USAID’s ongoing development priorities and COVID-19 response in Africa…

KFF: COVID-19 Coronavirus Tracker — Updated as of June 5, 2020 Data on country government actions in response to COVID-19 have been added to the tracker (6/5). Additional KFF COVID-19 resources on the global situation, as well as those focused on the response and impact within the U.S., are available…