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Health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
Viewpoints on health policy and data-driven reports on health systems across the LAC region. Also available on our Substack.
Viewpoint Tools for Global Health
Two Open-Source MCPs for WHO’s Global Health Data, Ahead of WHA 2026
Two open-source tools that make WHO’s Global Health Observatory and Global Health Expenditure Database directly answerable from any AI assistant — released ahead of next week’s World Health Assembly to support comparative health-systems research.
Report Climate & Health in LAC
The Super Niño Turns a Food Crisis into a Public Health Threat Across LAC
A Super Niño event is forecast for late 2026, threatening a region where 167 million people already face food insecurity. Agroecological food systems and anticipatory health responses are needed to face increasingly frequent extreme El Niño events.
6 sections · 4 data visualizations · 50 references
Report Health Systems in LAC
The Cancer Divide in LAC: Progress, Gaps, and Lessons Across Cancer Care
Latin America and the Caribbean faces a unique double burden: persistent infection-related cancers that wealthy nations eliminated, combined with rising modernization-related cancers. By 2040, the region will see 2.4 million new cases annually.
8 sections · 12 data visualizations · 41 references
Viewpoint Health Systems in LAC
What Comes Next for Health System Reforms in Latin America's Five Largest Economies
Across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile, health system reforms face the same structural tension: political ambition outpacing institutional capacity.
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Viewpoints and reports on health policy across Latin America and the Caribbean, published on our Substack, Health Systems in LAC.