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Petrochemicals and Pills: How the Iran War Exposed Medicines' Oil Vulnerability

Petrochemicals and Pills: How the Iran War Exposed Medicines' Oil Vulnerability

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A new analysis shows how the Iran War disrupted upstream inputs for pharmaceutical supply chains, as the United States and Iran move toward a deal

An Ethiopian Cargo terminal worker offloads a shipment of Johnson and Johnson's COVID-19 vaccines that arrived under the COVAX scheme, at the Bole International Airport, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 19, 2021.

Multilane Procurement Amid the America First Health Agenda

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Health procurement in low- and middle-income countries will remain unavoidably multilane. Donors should build around that reality

Where the Iran War Could Disrupt Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

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Pharmaceutical company executives are responding to the immediate supply-chain threats by targeting unconventional routes

Worldwide Flight Services personnel prepare humanitarian aid packages for the first French humanitarian flight to Beirut, carrying 60 tons of relief supplies and pharmaceutical products, at Paris‑Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Roissy‑en‑France near Paris, France, on March 12, 2026.

Feeding Dignity: A 2026 Blueprint for Food Aid in a Divided World

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From Sudan to the U.S. farm belt, hunger is rising not from scarcity but political disinvestment

A Sudanese displaced woman who was held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), cooks food at a camp for displaced people who fled from al-Fashir to Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on November 15, 2025.

What the Development Finance Corporation Reauthorization Means for Global Health Security

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The federal institution's new authorities and expanded mandate could facilitate U.S. engagement on global health security

Researchers work inside a laboratory at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 11, 2020.

Declarations Without Delivery: Weighing UN Plans for NCD Medicine Access

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International commitments to expand access to noncommunicable disease medicines have been slow to create impact

Women receive free treatment for breast cancer at the Bertha Calderon Women's Hospital, in Managua, Nicaragua, on October 17, 2012.

Digitizing Supply Chains—Down to the Last Mile—to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

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Limited visibility in procurement makes eliminating NTDs impossible

Digitizing Supply Chains—Down to the Last Mile—to End Neglected Tropical Diseases

Behind Baby Formula and Drug Shortages

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How supply chains break down for life-saving products

Behind Baby Formula and Drug Shortages

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs

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Patents aren't really the problem—usually

Building COVID-19 Vaccine Production Capacity in LMICs

Commercial Determinants of Health in COVID-19

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Often part of the problem in pandemics, private sector businesses can be part of the solution as well and protect people

Customers wearing facemasks are reflected in a mirror as they stand on an escalator inside the department store Le Printemps Haussmann in Paris, France, amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 28, 2020. The photo shows people on an escalator with the photo showing mirror images on the left and right of the frame. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Pig Pandemics and Other "Epizootic" Threats

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COVID-19 is scary, and so are disease outbreaks in animals—they cause great economic devastation and disrupt human lives

A statue of a hog with litter of suckling piglets. Pencil drawing by William Young Ottley (1771-1836). The picture is of a pencil drawing of a pig and her pups. CC BY 4.0 via Wellcome Collection

Coronavirus and America's Food Supply

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Swift action to ensure worker safety, robust food inspections, and sustained supply chains should be top U.S. priorities

Youtubers wearing masks of pigs film a video at a shopping district, which has fewer people than usual amid the coronavirus outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, on May 19, 2020. The photo shows two people wearing pig masks and dark suits standing with clear plastic umbrellas open. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon