GHC in 2017: Our First 100 Days
This post was written by Loyce Pace, MPH, Global Health Council President & Executive Director In global health, we know benchmarks matter. They’re the difference between...
View ArticleAdvocacy Update ~ May 1, 2017
This post was written by Global Health Council Senior Advocacy Manager Danielle Heiberg. Congress Passes Short-Term CR to Keep Government Open Despite being six months...
View ArticleGHC NEWS FLASH: GLOBAL HEALTH ROUNDUP 5/01/2017
GHC Reflects on its Own First 100 Days In global health, we know benchmarks matter. They’re the difference between whether a child reaches his or...
View ArticleNTI BROADENS BIOSECURITY MISSION WITH NEW INITIATIVE
This guest post has been provided by GHC-member Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). Infectious disease threats – whether naturally occurring, deliberate, or accidental – pose grave...
View ArticleFinal WHA Policy Scrum and New Delegates Webinar
Global Health Council (GHC) hosted its Final WHA Policy Scrum and New Delegates Webinar on May 9, 2017. The webinar provided an overview of GHC...
View ArticleGlobal Noncommunicable Diseases: Saving Lives by Reducing Risks
This infographic from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conveys key figures and statistics about the global impact of noncommunicable diseases. Access infographic.
View ArticleVaccines Work: Leaving No Child Behind – How Pediatricians Can Contribute to...
This guest post was written by Louis Z. Cooper, MD, American Academy of Pediatrics. It originally appeared on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blog....
View ArticleAdvocacy Update ~ May 15, 2017
This post was written by Danielle Heiberg, Senior Advocacy Manager, Global Health Council. FY17 Budget Approved In early May, seven months after the start of...
View ArticleA Silent Majority: Civil Society & the Election of a New World Health...
This post was written by Loyce Pace, MPH, President and Executive Director of Global Health Council. Next week, Global Health Council (GHC) is bringing a...
View ArticleGHC NEWS FLASH: GLOBAL HEALTH ROUNDUP 5/15/2017
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States Report Released The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics is releasing a report today...
View ArticleSummary of ‘Introduction to the World Health Assembly: A Briefing for Delegates’
This post was written by Individual GHC Member and WHA Delegate Joseph Harris. On Sunday, May 21, the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute and...
View ArticleWorld Health Assembly (#WHA70) Social Media Alerts
Day 1: Monday, May 22, 2017 Highlights from Yesterday Check out the best of our social media coverage from our Welcome Reception and Women in...
View ArticleGlobal Health Security: Why Women Matter
This guest post was written by Katherine C. Bond, Vice President International Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs at U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP), a scientific nonprofit organization that sets...
View ArticleTrump Administration Releases FY18 Budget
On May 23, the Trump administration released its recommended budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. “A New Foundation for American Greatness” includes sharp increases for...
View ArticleWHA Side-Event: Attacks on healthcare. Where do we stand one year after the...
This post was written by GHC Board Member and WHA Delegate Len Rubenstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Chair, Safeguarding Health in Conflict...
View ArticleWHA Side-Event: Enabling Global Health Security Through Health Systems...
This blog post was written by WHA Delegate Anne Bell, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention. As Tina Flores of Rabin Martin opened the panel on Enabling Global...
View ArticleGutting Global Health Programs Serves No One
Washington, DC (May 23, 2017) — Today the Trump administration released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 that contains a 26 percent decrease in global health...
View ArticleWhy Investments in Frontline Health Workers Matter: Preventing needless...
This guest post has been co-authored by Samalie Kitooleko, Nurse In-Charge of Uganda Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry & and Belinda Ngongo, Global Health Leaders Fellow, Public Health...
View ArticleHealth in All Policies
This blog post was written by Terry L Schmidt DrHA MBA (MPH), Individual GHC member and WHA70 Delegate. The Geneva Institute’s Global Health Center, during...
View ArticleChronic Childhood Disease: A Personal, Local, and Global Struggle
This guest post was written by Elizabeth Montgomery Collins, Individual GHC Member and WHA70 Delegate. Imagine a job that makes demands on you twenty-four hours...
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