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Global Fund's Peter Sands on Pandemic Lessons

PETER SANDS, RUCHIR AGARWAL

December 2, 2021

Peter Sands says economists should pay more attention to global health.
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PETER SANDS, RUCHIR AGARWAL - Global Fund's Peter Sands on Pandemic Lessons
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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

Read the article in Finance and Development.

PETER SANDS is the Executive Director of the Global Fund.

RUCHIR AGARWAL is a cofounder of the Global Talent Fund and the director of the Raj Center at Columbia University.

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