Allison Krugman

Allison (Allie) Krugman is the data visuals staff editor for Think Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to starting at the Council, she developed health policy and advocacy campaigns at the Community Service Society and consulted for foundations and multilateral organizations at Global Health Strategies. She is an alum of the Lede Program for Data Journalism, an intensive in narrative data analysis and visualization from Columbia Journalism School. She also holds a master's of public health in health policy analysis from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Claremont McKenna College.

Governance

Africa's Health Financing Gap

Donor health funding is declining in sub-Saharan Africa, and domestic spending is not rising to cover the gaps

Governance

Mpox Vaccine Tracker: Millions Pledged, Millions Still to Be Delivered

A weekly updated tracker for vaccine donations announced in response to the mpox Clade I outbreak

Migration

"On the Move": How Climate Migration Will Remake America

In a must-read, ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten uses the 2018 Camp Fire to show how extreme weather disrupts modern life

Governance

H5N1: How Effective Is Wastewater Surveillance for Bird Flu?

The Rockefeller Foundation's Megan Diamond explains wastewater surveillance for monitoring the H5N1 outbreak

Poverty

India's Call for Action on Noncommunicable Diseases

Noncommunicable diseases cause the majority of deaths in India, but public health responses fall short

Food

Timeline: H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak in the U.S.

A weekly updated timeline for H5N1 outbreak events

Governance

A First Step to Fairer Drug Prices for Young Americans

U.S drugs have been historically more expensive, but the Inflation Reduction Act signals a shift toward fairer prices

Governance

Fatal Attacks on Health-Care Workers Doubled in 2023

Amid a rise in global conflict, a new report shows that health-care workers are being killed at alarming rates

Gender

How Gender and Sex Shape Disease

New research exposes why health systems should tailor responses to the needs of men and women starting at a young age

Aging

A Longer Life Begins in the Classroom

A new study measures how much extra life comes from being educated

Governance

In Myanmar, Health Care Has Become a Battleground

Three years after a military coup, attacks against health care in Myanmar have reached a tipping point