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Think Global Health

Thoai D. Ngo

@ThoaiDNgo

Thoai D. Ngo is the chair and professor of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 
 

Governance

USAID Lost: Stories From Colombia, Kenya, and Nepal

by Thoai D. Ngo
USAID Lost: Stories From Colombia, Kenya, and Nepal
Poverty

How the MAHA Commission Can Improve U.S. Life Expectancy

by Thoai D. Ngo
How the MAHA Commission Can Improve U.S. Life Expectancy
Governance

Tackling the U.S. Coronavirus Data Catastrophe

by Thoai D. Ngo, Charlotte Brasseux, Saleh Abbas, Mingqi Song
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris watches as President Joe Biden signs executive orders on his racial equity agenda at the White House in Washington, DC on January 26, 2021.
Urbanization

Bridging Health Gaps With Inclusive Urbanization

by Jessie Pinchoff, Thoai D. Ngo
A slum dweller woman carries drinking water in Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Governance

Two Hundred Thousand and (Not) Counting

by Thoai D. Ngo, Charlotte Brasseux, Mingqi Song
They are informally honored—but are they officially counted? Activists stand at sunrise to memorialize victims of the coronavirus, near the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on August 27, 2020. The photo shows the monument in the thin morning lite with a silhouette line of people standing in the foreground. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Poverty

One Weak Link and the Whole Thing Falls Apart

by Thoai D. Ngo, Charlotte Brasseux
Data reporting exists but is "woefully inadequate and regrettably incomplete," like these mostly empty COVID-19 testing kits at the CDC serology testing site in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
Poverty

We Need a Pro-Poor and Pro-Black Response to COVID-19

by Thoai D. Ngo
A woman wears a mask during a Black Lives Matter protest in Centenary Square in Birmingham, England following the death of George Floyd who died in police custody in Minneapolis, on June 4, 2020. The picture shows a woman in a striking mask adorned with the words Floyd Life "Mattered." REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff