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ArticleJournal of epidemiology and global health2025

The Golden Age of Global Health is Over. What Follows?

Derek Yach, Aviva Ron, Dorit Nitzan

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Article in Journal of epidemiology and global health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Derek YachGlobal Health Strategies LLC, Southport, Connecticut, USA. derek@globalhealthconsults.net.
Aviva RonHealth Sector Development, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Member of Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Manila, Philippines.
Dorit NitzanSchool of Public Health, and Head, Master Program in Emergency Medicine, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article examines the rise and fall of global health's so-called golden age, from the 1990s to the early 2020s, a period marked by multilateral cooperation, historic funding increases, and major institutional innovations. It highlights the factors that have led to the decline-including funding cuts, political shifts, and emerging global crises-and argues for a reimagined framework for global health going forward. Recommendations include diversifying funding, empowering regional coalitions, adapting new governance models, and defending the principle of health equity. Without such reforms, the next era risks deepening global disparities in health outcomes.

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Global HealthInternational CooperationHumansPoliticsFunding for healthGlobal HealthWorld Health Organization

Identifiers

PMID40665045
PMCPMC12263531

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