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Global health challenges threaten the United States’ health and economic security, a reality made painfully clear over the past 14 months. Many low- and middle-income countries lack adequate domestic resources to invest in public health and, at the same time, face mounting debt burdens that impede their ability to raise new funding for essential investments. The Covid-19 pandemic is a call to action to rethink how the United States prioritizes pandemic preparedness and investments in public health. U.S. leadership will be essential to mobilizing investment from the official sector and pri...

Thursday, April 29, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm On Thursday, April 29 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. EDT, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and CSIS Economics Program will co-host a panel discussion on the major findings of a new Commission report: Creating Fiscal Space in the Covid-19 Era. This event will feature keynote remarks followed by a distinguished panel of experts, who will discuss innovative, concrete options for generating financial resources for pandemic preparedness and response in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Covid-19 pandemic is a call to...

Goldstone Forum The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program presents the 20th Annual Goldstone Forum, featuring Robert Cialdini, who studies principles of persuasion. He will discuss social-norms-based messaging. For more information, visit sas.upenn.edu. Friday, April 30, 2021

Overview Prompted in part by the rise of  China, economics has become a hot topic in U.S. national security discussions. For many years, however, Washington has used instruments of economic statecraft -- both coercive tools such as sanctions and inducements such as trade and development assistance -- to shape other countries’  behavior and advance U.S. prosperity and security.  Participants from the policy, business, analysis, and development communities will learn from leading experts about how  U.S. policymakers deploy a wide range of economic tools to support U.S. economic an...

April 14, 2021 Preface It is in the United States’ strategic interests to ensure that the world mobilizes effectively to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A proactive U.S. role is essential to secure the gains underway in the United States and ensure Americans’ health, safety, and prosperity into the future. Helping to secure the future of lower- and middle-income countries is also simply the right thing to do, on humanitarian, economic, and security grounds. Today, the United States is quickly approaching a moment of genuine promise, when exceptionally effective vaccines, accelerated distribu...