Full text: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/11/in-the-grip-of-horror-and...
"We’re seeing a massive level of loss."
Atul Gawande
According to an analysis in The Lancet, USAID’s work saved about 92 million lives over two decades...
“The current estimate is about 600,000 lives lost so far” as a result of those cuts, Gawande said...
“At the current moment, the biggest threat to advancing human life expectancy is the government itself,” he said. “So that’s where I’m concentrating.”
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org