Peter Sands says economists should pay more attention to global health.
Pandemics pose significant macroeconomic costs but only recently have garnered the attention they deserve. In this podcast, IMF economist Ruchir Agarwal, sits down with Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, to discuss the role of macroeconomics in public health preparedness. Transcript
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PETER SANDS is the Executive Director of the Global Fund.
RUCHIR AGARWAL, is a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and cofounder of the Global Talent Network.
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