2020 has been a banner year for the long-overdue push to appoint women to the notoriously male-dominated leadership ranks of UN peacekeeping and political missions—a sign that the UN's gender parity strategy is making progess. This article provides a preview of some of the data from the UN Senior Appointments Dashboard that CIC and the Center for Global Affairs will soon launch, showing both real gains for gender parity, and a more nuanced picture of how well the UN is addressing the complementary priority of regional diversity.

Over the past two years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has worked to contain its tenth and largest Ebola epidemic. This Congo Research Group group report, the first of three focusing on the epidemic, examines the public health aspects of the response—particularly the creation of a parallel health system funded by international donors. Despite clinical advances, these parallel structures significantly compromised the efficacy of the response, potentially prolonging the epidemic and contributing to violence.