Last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development was absorbed into the Department of State. We assume this isn’t news to any readers. As USAID’s former administrator under the first Trump ...

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The recently unveiled America First Global Health Strategy represents a fundamental reorientation of US engagement in global health, framed as a ‘new playbook’ designed to safeguard US lives, ...

United States (US) President Donald Trump has implemented a series of executive actions that have significantly reshaped US engagement in global health and humanitarian aid. Guided by an ‘America ...

Global health and security will increasingly rely on the support of private sector actors, multilateral development banks, and local scientists, institutions, and entrepreneurs. While these local ...

Last week, the Trump administration rejected the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) — a global treaty that the United States has been a part of since 2007. The rejection ...

An NASEM committee will examine international health security programs, engaging experts from countries that actively sponsor such work to determine ways to improve global health security. The ...

Steep cuts in US government funding have thrown much of the field of global health into a state of fear and uncertainty. Once a crown jewel of US foreign policy, valued at some US$12 billion a year, ...

The impact of the U.S. government’s sudden retreat on foreign assistance in 2025 has been most pronounced in Africa. For decades, African countries received the majority of U.S. global health ...

The first obligation of any government is to keep its people safe. This is generally interpreted as support for the military and police, yet, even in times of war, more people die from preventable ...