AEI's health policy program covers a variety of topics, including international health policy.

Within international health policy, AEI's scholars focus attention on global pandemic diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS, as well as on the pharmaceutical industry and the effects of demographics and economics on the health of world populations.

The following is a listing of scholars studying these subjects, as well as a sampling of publications, congressional testimony, and events on international health policy.

SCHOLARS

Roger Bate	Resident Fellow Roger Bate studies health policy and endemic diseases in developing countries, the role of aid agencies and NGOs in developing countries, and genetically-modified organisms and pesticide policy in developing countries.
John E. Calfee	Resident Scholar John E. Calfee studies pharmaceuticals, the Food and Drug Administration, health care policy, advertising, the tort liability system, and tobacco.
Nicholas Eberstadt	Henry Wendt Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt studies demographics, foreign aid, poverty, infant mortality, health disparities, and economic development. He has written extensively on Korea, East Asia, and countries of the former Soviet Union.
James K. Glassman	Resident Fellow James K. Glassman has written on AIDS policy and drug research and development.

THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC

Publications

Bate, Roger. "WHO's AIDS Target: An Inevitable Failure." AEI Health Policy Outlook, No 3, 2006.

"The Future of International HIV Treatment." AEI Newsletter, April 2006.

Bate, Roger, and Richard Tren. "Brazil's AIDS Program: A Costly Success." AEI Health Policy Outlook, No 1, 2006.

"HIV/AIDS in the Muslim World." AEI Newsletter, August 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Slippery AIDS Statistics: Why Loose HIV Numbers Create False Hope and Bad Policy." AEI Health Policy Outlook, May-June 2005.

Bate, Roger, and Richard Tren. "The Real Obstacles to Sound Treatment of AIDS in Poor Countries." AEI Health Policy Outlook, July-August 2004.

Glassman, James K. "What to Do to Save the World." AEI On the Issues, June 2004.

Calfee, John E. and Roger Bate. "Pharmaceuticals and the Worldwide HIV Epidemic: Can a Stakeholder Model Work?" AEI-Brookings Joint Center Related Paper 04-16, August 2004.

Eberstadt, Nicholas, and Laura M. Kelley. "Fatal Denial: Muslims and AIDS." Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Acting Up against AIDS Trials." Wall Street Journal Europe, March 11, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Fewer AIDS Drugs in the Pipeline." Financial Times (London), March 8, 2005.

Satel, Sally. "WHO's Dubious Bag of HIV Medicines." Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2004.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "Bracing for AIDS Crisis in Eurasia." Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2003.

Eberstadt, Nicholas, and Laura M. Kelley. "Behind the Veil of a Public Health Crisis: HIV/AIDS in the Muslim World." Paper for the National Bureau of Asian Research, June 8, 2005.

Events

March 2, 2006: "International Health Policy Decisions and the Future of HIV Treatment." Speakers: Jerry Norris, Jim Driscoll, Richard Tren, and Roger Bate.

July 8, 2005: "Behind the Veil of a Public Health Crisis: HIV/AIDS in the Muslim World." Speakers: Nicholas Eberstadt and Laura M. Kelley.

May 12, 2004: "The Real Obstacles to Treating AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis in Developing Countries." Speakers included Nicholas Eberstadt, Scott Gottlieb, and Richard Tren.

February 5, 2004: "The Global Pandemic: AIDS in Africa, China, and Russia." Speakers included Tommy Thompson, Randall L. Tobias, Roger Bate, and Nicholas Eberstadt.

PHARMACEUTICALS

Publications

Bate, Roger. "Subsidies for the Rich in Poor Countries." Daily Times (Malawi), February 6, 2008.

Bate, Roger. "Paging Dr. Ricardo: A Dose of Economics for Healthier Pharmaceutical Production." Health Policy Outlook no. 1, 2008.

Bate, Roger. "Medicines for the Poor: Not the Oxfam Way." Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa), January 17, 2008.

Bate, Roger. "Medicines That Kill: A Global Industry of Fake Drugs." China Post (Taiwan), December 22, 2007.

Bate, Roger, and Lorraine Mooney. "First, Do No Harm: The Toll of Unhealthy Health Care Practices." Health Policy Outlook no. 13, 2007.

Bate, Roger, and Kathryn Boateng. "Bad Medicine in the Market." Health Policy Outlook no. 8, 2007.

Bate, Roger. "The Cost of Cheap Drugs." Economic Affairs, June 2007.

Bate, Roger. "Thailand and the Drug Patent Wars." Health Policy Outlook no. 5, April 2007.

Bate, Roger. "India and the Drug Patent Wars." Health Policy Outlook no. 3, 2007.

Bate, Roger, and Richard Tren. "Government-Controlled Pharmaceutical Research and Development: A Recipe for Disaster." Health Policy Outlook no. 8, 2006.

Calfee, John E., Mario Villarreal, and Elizabeth DuPre. "An Exploratory Analysis of Pharmaceutical Price Disparities and Their Implications among Six Developed Nations." AEI-Brookings Joint Center working paper, April 2006.

Bate, Roger, Richard Tren, Jasson Urbach. "Still Taxed to Death: An Analysis of Taxes and Tariffs on Medicines, Vaccines and Medical Devices." AEI-Brookings Joint Center Related Publication, updated February 2006.

Bate, Roger, and Richard Tren. "The WTO and Access to Essential Medicines: Recent Agreements, New Assignments." Health Policy Outlook no. 4, 2006.

Miller, Richard D., and H. E. Frech. Health Care Matters: Pharmaceuticals, Obesity, and the Quality of Life. AEI Press, March 2004.

Bate, Roger, Richard Tren, Jasson Urbach. "Taxed to Death." AEI-Brookings Joint Center Related Publication, April 2005.

Calfee, John E. "The Grim Economics of Pharmaceutical Importation." AEI Health Policy Outlook, November 2003.

Calfee, John E. and Roger Bate. "Pharmaceuticals and the Worldwide HIV Epidemic: Can a Stakeholder Model Work?" AEI-Brookings Joint Center Related Paper 04-16, August 2004.

Bate, Roger. "Acting Up against AIDS Trials." Wall Street Journal Europe, March 11, 2005.

Hubbard, R. Glenn. "Attacking Drug-Makers Is No Cure." Financial Times (London), June 16, 2004.

Bate, Roger, and Jim Driscoll. "Remove Medical Tariffs." Wall Street Journal Asia, February 27, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Taxed to Death: Levies on Vital Medicines in Developing Nations Are Fatal." Article in the Bankok Post, March 3, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "WTO's Next Target--Tariff Removal." Speech at an AIDS Institute Conference, December 14, 2005.

Glassman, James K. "U.S. Consumers Shafted by European Price Controls." Scripps Howard News Service, October 25, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Tariffs Lower Access to Essential Medicines." Speech to the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, June 20, 2005.

Gottlieb, Scott. "Achieving Drug Access and Affordability without Trading on Future Innovation." Speech to the Japanese Diet, June 13, 2005.

Glassman, James K. "Stop, Thief!" Article distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service, July 25, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Poor Countries Must Remove Tax Barriers to Key Medicines." Daily Telegraph (London), May 30, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Death and Taxes." Washington Examiner, May 5, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "A Tax before Dying: African Regimes Slap a Tariff on AIDS Drugs." The Weekly Standard, May 3, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Medical Death Taxes." United Press International, April 22, 2005.

Glassman, James K. and John R. Lott Jr. "The Drug World's Easy Riders." Wall Street Journal Europe, July 23, 2003.

Bate, Roger. "Poor Countries Must Remove Tax Barriers to Key Medicines." Daily Telegraph (London), May 31, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Death and Taxes: Why Taxes and Tariffs on Medicines in Developing Nations Is a Fatal Policy." Medical Progress Today, May 5, 2005.

Calfee, John E. "Patently Wrong: Free Drugs Are No Panacea for Poor Nations." Washington Times, January 28, 2003.

Government Testimony

Bate, Roger. "Access to Essential Medical Interventions and Mission Creep in Aid Agencies." Testimony before the Presidential Advisory on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), May 1, 2006.

Hassett, Kevin. "Pharmaceutical Price Controls in OECD Countries." Testimony before the International Trade Administration at the Department of Commerce, August 3, 2004.

Calfee, John E. "International Pharmaceutical Pricing." Testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance and the Joint Committee on International Trade and Health, April 27, 2004.

Events

April 15, 2005. "The Perils of Re-importation: A Hard Look at Buying Drugs from Canada and Beyond." Speakers: John E. Calfee, Scott Gottlieb, and John R. Graham.

October 7, 2004: "What Happened to the European Pharmaceutical Industry? A European Perspective." Speakers: Fabio Pammolli, Claude E. Barfield, and John E. Calfee.

December 12, 2003: "The Price of Pharmaceuticals: International Comparisons and the Effects of Controls." Speakers: Patricia M. Danzon, John E. Calfee, and Judith L. Wagner.

October 2, 2003: "Unrestricted Prescription-Drug Importation from Canada and Elsewhere: The Debate." Speakers: John E. Calfee, David Gratzer, Rep. Gil Gutknecht (R-Minn.), and Roger Pilon.

September 2, 2003: "Pharmaceutical Products, TRIPS, and the Doha Round: What Are the Stakes?" Speakers included Amir Attaran, Rubens Barbosa, John E. Calfee, and James Mendenhall.

May 27, 2003: "Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs: The American and New Zealand Experiences." Speakers: Janet Hoek, Robert Leitman, Ed Slaughter, and Glen Wiggs.

March 18, 2003: "The Worldwide Campaign against Pharmaceutical Innovation." Speakers: Sidney Taurel, John E. Calfee, Frank Lichtenberg, and Lacy Glenn Thomas.

November 18, 2002. "International Pharmaceutical Markets." Speakers: Claude Barfield, John E. Calfee, Lee Gillespie-White, Scott Gottlieb, Frank Lichtenberg, Julian Morris, and Timothy Westmoreland.

MALARIA AND TUBERCULOSIS

Publications

Bate, Roger. "The Rise, Fall, Rise, and Imminent Fall of DDT." Health Policy Outlook no. 14, 2007.

Bate, Roger. "Last Chance for DDT." Wall Street Journal, November 5, 2007.

Bate, Roger, Archbishop Pius Ncube, Richard Tren, and Jasson Urbach. " Tyranny and Disease: The Destruction of Health Care in Zimbabwe." Africa Fighting Malaria, September 2007.

Bate, Roger, Philip Coticelli, and Richard Tren. "A Field Report of Uganda's Efforts to Build a Comprehensive Malaria Control Program." Africa Fighting Malaria, September 2007.

Bate, Roger. "Unchecked Idealism." Health Policy Outlook no. 7, 2007.

Bate, Roger, and Kathryn Boateng. "Africa Malaria Day 2007: Time for a Checkup." Africa Fighting Malaria, April 23, 2007.

Bate, Roger. "On the Trail of a Cure: Reality and Rhetoric on Treating Malaria." Health Policy Outlook no. 4, 2007.

Bate, Roger, Philip Coticelli, and Richard Tren. "Moving Mountains: The Evolution of USAID's Malaria Control Program." Africa Fighting Malaria, December 12, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "Malaria Initiative Progresses." Washington Times, December 14, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "World Bank Matrix (Malaria Booster Program): An Analysis for Africa Fighting Malaria." Africa Fighting Malaria, October 30, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "Poor Countries Need Relief from the World Bank's "Help" on Malaria." Working Paper, October 18, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "Bad Medicine: The WHO, the World Bank, and Mission Creep." Health Policy Outlook no. 6, 2006.

Bate, Roger, and Benjamin Schwab. "The Blind Hydra: USAID Policy Fails to Control Malaria." Working Paper, updated May 25, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "What an Unnecessary Disaster: We're Fighting Malaria with Outmoded Techniques--for No Good Reason." Washington Post, April 25, 2004.

Bate, Roger. "Fighting Malaria--the Right Way." Article in the Examiner (Washington), January 9, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "DDT Saves Lives." Speech at a Hedge Funds v. Malaria Conference in Atlanta, December 6, 2005.

Bate, Roger, and Richard Tren. "DDT Saves Lives in Fight against Malaria." CEI's On Point, November 1, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Deadly Mosquito Standoff." Washington Times, October 21, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "WHO's Numbers Don't Add Up." South African Business Day, May 24, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Stop the Silent Tsunami." To the Source, April 26, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "USAID Fights Malaria Blindfolded." Examiner, April 20, 2005.

Glassman, James K. "Time for Congress to Get Serious about WHO's Excesses." Scripps Howard News Service, April 4, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "WHO's to Blame?" National Review, February 14, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Health Agencies Must Stop Demonizing DDT: It Saves Lives." Daily Telegraph (London), February 7, 2005.

Bate, Roger and Richard Tren. "Guilty of 'Medical Malpractice'." Washington Times, January 16, 2004.

Glassman, James K. "Good and Bad News about TB." Scripps Howard News Service, March 15, 2004.

Bate, Roger. "Death to Mosquitoes." The Weekly Standard, March 1, 2004.

Bate, Roger, Donald Roberts, Christopher Curtis, Richard Tren, Brian Sharp, and Clive Shiff. "Malaria Control and Public Health." Emerging Infectious Diseases (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), June 1, 2004.

Congressional Testimony

Bate, Roger. "USAID's New Policy Reforms: Moving Past Rhetorical Commitments to Real Changes." Testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, January 19, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "Science in Environmental Policy Making." Testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, September 28, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "The Blind Hydra: USAID Policy Fails to Control Malaria." Testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, May 12, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Malaria in Africa." Testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, September 14, 2004.

Events

"The Continued Economic Burden of Malaria." AEI-Brookings Conference on Risk, Science, and Public Policy, October 12, 2004. Speakers included Roger Bate, Jasson Urbach, and Richard Tren.

May 12, 2004: "The Real Obstacles to Treating AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis in Developing Countries." Speakers included Nicholas Eberstadt, Scott Gottlieb, and Richard Tren.

December 2, 2003: "Tackling Malaria: The Role of DDT and New Drugs." Speakers: Amir Attaran, Lawrence Barat, Roger Bate, Mary Ettling, and Jennifer Zambone.

AGING POPULATIONS

Publications

Eberstadt, Nicholas, "Healthy Old Europe." Foreign Affairs, May/June 2007.

Eberstadt, Nicholas, "Growing Old the Hard Way." Policy Review, April/May 2006.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "Russia, the Sick Man of Europe." The Public Interest, Winter 2005.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "Old Age Tsunami." Wall Street Journal, November 15, 2005.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "The Russian Federation at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: The Russian Federation at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Trapped in a Demographic Straitjacket." National Bureau of Asian Research, September 2004.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "Four Surprises in Global Demography." On the Issues, August 2004.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "Bleak Prospects for China's Aging Population." Apple Daily, May 24, 2004.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "China's "Triple Bind": Demography, Economics, and Health in An Aging Low-Income Population." China, CSIS/CASS Conference on China's Aging Challenge, April 16-21, 2004.

Eberstadt, Nicholas. "The Population Implosion." Foreign Policy, March 1, 2001.

Events

December 3, 2007: Healthy Aging: Europe's Economic Trump Card?" Speakers: Nicholas Eberstadt, Hans Groth, M.D., and Jim Kolbe.

October 9, 2007: "'Demographic Divergence' between America and Europe." Speakers: Nicholas Eberstadt, Tod Lindberg, and Barbara Boyle Torrey. 

September 28, 2005: "The Graying of the Planet: Implications of the Great Global Aging Ahead." Speaker: Ronald D. Lee.

THE ECONOMIC LINK

Bate, Roger. "Bad Medicine: The WHO, the World Bank, and Mission Creep." Health Policy Outlook, no. 6, 2006.

Bate, Roger, Richard Tren, Jasson Urbach. "Still Taxed to Death: An Analysis of Taxes and Tariffs on Medicines, Vaccines and Medical Devices." AEI-Brookings Joint Center Related Publication, updated February 2006.

Bate, Roger and Richard Tren. "The Real Obstacles to Sound Treatment of AIDS in Poor Countries." AEI Health Policy Outlook, July-August 2004.

Bate, Roger. "The Sick Are Taxed to Death in Poor Countries." Financial Times (London), May 31, 2004.

Bate, Roger. "Taxed to Death: Levies on Vital Medicines in Developing Nations Are Fatal." Article in the Bankok Post, March 3, 2006.

Bate, Roger. "WTO's Next Target--Tariff Removal." Speech at an AIDS Institute Conference, December 14, 2005.

Glassman, James K. "U.S. Consumers Shafted by European Price Controls." Scripps Howard News Service, October 25, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Poor Countries Must Remove Tax Barriers to Key Medicines." Daily Telegraph (London), May 31, 2005.

Bate, Roger, and Richard Tren. "Despotism and Disease." Paper for Africa Fighting Malaria, March 11, 2005.

Bate, Roger. "Wealthy Nations Must Tackle Zimbabwe AIDS First." Daily Telegraph (London), January 17, 2005.

Eberstadt, Nicholas and Sally Satel. "Health, Inequality, and the Scholars." The Public Interest, Fall 2004.

Calfee, John E. "Patently Wrong: Free Drugs Are No Panacea for Poor Nations." Washington Times, January 28, 2003.

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