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• Phillip Meylan and Isabel Schmidt, “Health Security for a Safer Future: Harnessing innovation, investment, and shared commitments today is key to averting tomorrow’s health crises,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, March 2026, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/19/health-security-safe-future.

• Phillip Meylan and Isabel Schmidt, “From Burden to Breakthrough: Scaling proven solutions to tackle non-communicable diseases and close implementation gaps,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, November 2025, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/breakthrough-innovation-non-communicable-diseases.

• Phillip Meylan, “Confronting the Non-Communicable Disease Burden in Developing Countries: Closing the health financing gap to counteract the world’s leading cause of death,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, May 2025, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/21/non-communicable-disease-burden-developing-countries.

• Phillip Meylan, Isabel Schmidt, and Mayesha Alam, “Seizing Opportunity at the Climate-Health Nexus: Key actions to minimize climate change’s impacts on global health,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, May 2025, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/18/seizing-opportunity-climate-health-nexus.

• Phillip Meylan and Isabel Schmidt, “The Compounding Returns from Cancer Care: Strengthening health and economic outcomes through equitable access to quality care,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, January 2025, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/18/compounding-returns-cancer-care.

• Phillip Meylan, “Strengthening Actionable Intelligence from AI, Big Data, and Advanced Tech: Insights from a Roundtable Discussion alongside the 2024 World Economic Forum – Davos, Switzerland,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, January 30, 2024, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/30/strengthening-actionable-intelligence-from-ai-big-data-and-advanced-tech.

• Phillip Meylan and Mayesha Alam, “Ensuring Our Climate Future: Achievements of COP28 and Priorities Ahead,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, December 2023, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/15/ensuring-our-climate-future.

• Phillip Meylan, Mayesha Alam, and Allison Carlson, “Fostering Energy and Climate Security as Part of a Just Transition,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, November 2023, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/16/energy-climate-security-just-transition.

• Phillip Meylan, Avery Parsons Grayson, Angeli Juani, and Mayesha Alam, Safeguarding Childhood: An Assessment of National Budgeting Transparency to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse (Washington, DC: FP Analytics, September 2023), https://safeguardingchildhood.com.

• Phillip Meylan, Isabel Schmidt, and Mayesha Alam, “Protected: Toward a Paradigm Shift on Mental Health in Latin America,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, April 2023, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/27/toward-a-paradigm-shift-on-mental-health-in-latin-america.

• Phillip Meylan and Mayesha Alam, “Digital Inclusion for All: Ensuring Access for Older Adults in the Digital Age,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, April 2023, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/24/digital-inclusion-for-all.

• Phillip Meylan, Mayesha Alam, and Isabel Schmidt, “The Investment Case for Transforming Health Care to Act Early on Non-Communicable Diseases,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, January 2023, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/05/the-investment-case-for-transforming-health-care-to-act-early-on-non-communicable-diseases.

• Phillip Meylan, “How U.S. policy toward Ukraine could change if Republicans retake control of Congress,” Yahoo News, November 2, 2022, https://news.yahoo.com/how-us-policy-toward-ukraine-could-change-if-republicans-retake-control-of-congress-223210819.html.

• Phillip Meylan, “Greece-Turkey tensions remain high as elections loom for Mitsotakis and Erdogan,” Yahoo News, October 21, 2022, https://news.yahoo.com/greece-turkey-tensions-remain-high-as-elections-loom-for-mitsotakis-and-erdogan-231219607.html.

• Phillip Meylan, “The Compounding Economic Dividends of Global Health Investment,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, September 2022, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/09/Compounding-Economic-Dividends-of-Global-Health-Investment.pdf.

• Phillip Meylan, “Xi Jinping looms larger than ever over Chinese politics and the Communist Party,” Yahoo News, October 15, 2022, https://news.yahoo.com/xi-jinping-looms-larger-than-ever-over-chinese-politics-and-the-communist-party-090046931.html.

• Phillip Meylan, “Brazil’s Bolsonaro scoffs at the polls as runoff election with Lula looms,” Yahoo News, October 4, 2022, https://news.yahoo.com/brazils-bolsonaro-scoffs-at-the-polls-as-runoff-election-with-lula-looms-234527507.html.

• Phillip Meylan, “The Eyes Above: The Implications of Geospatial Data for Responding to Crises,” FP Analytics, Issue Brief, May 2021, https://fpanalytics.foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/17/the-eyes-above-the-implications-of-geospatial-data-for-responding-to-crises.

• Phillip Meylan, “Caciquismo and Bossism: Local Power in Mexico and the Philippines,” (MSc thesis, LSE, August 2019), https://www.phillipmeylan.com/s/Caciquismo-and-Bossism-Meylan.pdf.

• Phillip Meylan and Daniel Runde, “Blockchains Will Change the Way the World Votes,” CSIS, Commentary, January 26, 2018, https://www.csis.org/analysis/blockchains-will-change-way-world-votes.

• Phillip Meylan and Daniel Runde, “Blockchains and International Development: A Good Bet,” CSIS, Commentary, August 7, 2017, https://www.csis.org/analysis/blockchains-and-international-development-good-bet.

• Phillip Meylan, “Wilkom-one, Wilkom-all,” CSIS, New Perspectives in Foreign Policy, vol. 11, Summer 2016, https://www.csis.org/analysis/new-perspectives-foreign-policy-issue-11-summer-2016.