Dear Colleagues,

First a short “message from the house”: IHP is about to go on holidays for a few weeks. Stay tuned for the next issue somewhere early September (probably a big catch-up issue).

In this week’s issue, you find among others some of the usual updates on global health governance and financing, including important new work from CGD on the World Bank and Global Health Financing.  Sadly, the Gates Foundation ignored our gentle hint from last week, and decided to splash out again on IHME “with a landmark 10-year investment” (over half a billion, pocket money for Bill) : )  Although the fine print is no doubt an improvement over the Gates/IHME collaboration in the MDG era, I wonder how this rhymes with the ‘new paradigm towards more health sovereignty’ and other “Accra Resets”, but hey, that’s just me.  Speaking of the Accra Reset, many of us are already looking forward to the High-Level panel recommendations, set to be released in the coming weeks, ahead of UNGA.  ...