Advocacy Update ~ March 18, 2019
Trump Administration Releases Proposed Budget for FY 2020 On March 11, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, and for the third consecutive year, the...
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Member Spotlight: WaterAid
Photo Credit: WaterAid/Behailu Shiferaw Women in the WASH sector: Is Being Invited to the Party Enough? Following 2018 elections in Ethiopia, a record-breaking number of women now hold leadership...
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Advocacy Update ~ April 1, 2019
Advocacy Update Webinar On Friday, March 29, the GHC advocacy team hosted its first quarterly Advocacy Update webinar. The purpose of this webinar series is to bring these written updates to life –...
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Scoring Shots for the Global Health Team
March has been a time filled with much excitement! Yes, although it’s April, March Madness is still upon us. Many brackets were busted, but there are still a few games left to go! Similarly, these...
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Webinar Resources View full recording above Review PowerPoint Presentation View full FY2020 funding chart Access our Global Health Briefing Book Use GHC’s talking points Follow GHC on Twitter:...
View ArticleGlobal Health Security Act Reintroduced in Congress
Washington, DC (April 10, 2019) – Global Health Council welcomes the reintroduction of the Global Health Security Act of 2019 (bill number pending) by U.S. Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and...
View ArticleAdvocacy Update ~ April 15, 2019
House Votes on Resolution Setting Top Line Spending Amount Spending caps, also known as budget caps, were established in the Budget Control Act of 2011 to limit federal spending and avoid debt. Since...
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Member Spotlight: American Heart Association
Photo Credit: Max Lowe/Getty Images Our healthcare systems are ailing. Here’s how to make them better Growing life expectancy, while something to be celebrated, also means that a rising number of...
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Collective Voice: The Coalition Against Typhoid
Source: The Coalition against Typhoid Gearing up for Local Impact – Coalition against Typhoid Director’s Recap from the 11th International Conference on Typhoid and Other Invasive Salmonelloses We’ve...
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Preparing for the Upcoming United Nations High-Level Meeting on UHC
Moving Together to Build a Healthier World Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become the flagship theme for the global health community in 2019. Although the forthcoming UN high-level meeting on UHC...
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Member Spotlight: The Global Health Advocacy Incubator
Photo Credit: Ana Rhia Muhi/ The Global Health Advocacy Incubator Saving lives with car seats in the Philippines As an advocate and Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) country coordinator in the...
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Achieving Health For All: Interview with Loyce Pace on Universal Health...
In advance of the April 29 multi-stakeholder hearing for the United Nations High-Level Meeting (UN HLM) on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Global Health Council’s President and Executive Director...
View ArticleAdvocacy Update ~ April 29, 2019
Congress Returns to Capitol Hill Members of Congress return to Capitol Hill today after a two-week recess. Prior to heading home, the House of Representatives passed a deeming resolution setting the...
View ArticleAdvocacy Update ~ May 13, 2019
FY 2020 Appropriations It has been a busy two weeks on Capitol Hill as the House began work on Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 appropriations bills, including State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs...
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Why We Support Global Health: Voices from GHPC19
Supporting Global Health at the CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference 2019 Last week, the Global Health Council (GHC) attended the CORE Group’s Global Health Practitioner Conference (GHPC19)...
View ArticleWHA Resolution on WASH in Health Care Facilities
One of the agenda items that Member States will take up at WHA is to address the lack of adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities in low- and middle-income countries. In...
View Article72nd World Health Assembly Social Media Toolkit
WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT #WHA72 | #CivilSocietySpeaks Download The Toolkit GHC WHA72 Delegation Infographic Nearly 100 civil society representatives from Global Health Council (GHC)...
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Accelerating the Development of a Pathbreaking Universal Drug Regimen for TB
“Hi! My name is mycobacterium tuberculosis (MT for short). I traveled here from Washington, D.C. to attend the World Health Assembly. I’m a global killer that knows no boundaries. However, with better...
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Why We’re Still Fighting One of the World’s Most Ancient Diseases
Physician at a clinical trial site in Tbilisi, Georgia. Photo Credit: TB Alliance Tuberculosis (TB) may be an ancient disease, but it is still the leading cause of infectious death worldwide,...
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How the World Health Organization and the World Can Promote the Health of...
WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Montgomery Collins. In 2017, concerns over immigrant health moved World Health Organization (WHO) Member States to request that the WHO...
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