Washington, D.C., April 24, 2024 – Global Health Council announced today the appointment of four new Board members, as well as a Chair-Elect, Amy Boldosser-Boesch. With a career spanning over two decades in health policy and advocacy, Boldosser-Boesch is a distinguished leader in the field. She currently serves as the Senior Director and Practice Area Lead for Health Policy, Advocacy & Engagement at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a global nonprofit organization dedicated to building resilient health systems worldwide. “I’m deeply honored to be elected incoming Chair of the Board of ..read more

The Global Health Council team just got a little bigger. In addition to appointing Amy Boldosser-Boesch as new Board Chair-elect, we welcomed four new Board members, expanding the Board to 17 members. As an organization, we are dedicated to incorporating racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic equity into everything we do — and the Board is reflective of these values. For example, our four new members represent several sectors, including NGOs (Craig Molyneaux, Chief Operating Officer at EGPAF), the private sector (Hannah Cooper Klein, co-founder and CEO of Cooper/Smith), and frontline health wo ..read more

Global Health Security Strategy Last week, the Biden administration released its strategy to strengthen global health security, demonstrating its continued commitment to protecting against future health threats. The strategy outlines three key goals: Strengthening bilateral partnerships Catalyzing political commitment, financing, and leadership Increasing linkages between global health security and complementary programs For examples of how the U.S. is partnering with other countries, as well as success stories and investments in global health security, we encourage you to visit the new Glob ..read more

Welcome to our new blog series highlighting a very important group within Global Health Council: the Working Group co-chairs. Through this series, we will introduce you to each of the co-chairs and provide an overview of their work plans and priorities for the coming months. For those of you who may not be familiar with the Working Groups, they are a place where members come together to discuss strategy, share information, and align messaging in order to positively influence global health policy. These are the place where theory and practice are put into action. In this post, we are introducin ..read more

We are The Access Challenge (TAC), a non-profit organization that seeks to build prosperous partnerships with governments, businesses, and cultural/local leaders to boost momentum in Africa for Universal Health Coverage. TAC engages in cross-sector partnerships to develop impactful campaigns that provide health communication outreach, encourage social behavioral change (SBC) around health behaviors, and advocate for equal access to healthcare. Our campaigns are impactful because we utilize ‘surround sound’ mass media methods that tap into the influential powers that cultural icons (like polit ..read more

Earlier this year, Global Health Council awarded its second round of Advocacy in Motion (AIM) Grants to five civil society organizations. These grants are intended to support advocacy, health equity, and amplify the voices of local and regional organizations. This month we are featuring one of our winners, Acción International para la Salud (AIS Peru). Based in Lima, Acción International para la Salud (International Action for Health) advocates for universal access to health services, including medicines and other essential health technologies.  We recently spoke with AIS ..read more

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the world what many in the global health community already knew – the stressors of being a frontline health worker can significantly impact mental health. Recently, Global Health Council had the opportunity to speak to Juan Carlos Negrette, Director of Global Health at the University of Utah. Mr. Negrette believes that this challenge requires additional research to understand its scope and impact. Ultimately, a holistic framework must be developed to address what is a growing crisis. Read our interview below to hear what he has to say: Can you tell us about Univer ..read more

Earlier this year, Global Health Council awarded its second round of Advocacy in Motion (AIM) Grants to five civil society organizations. These grants are intended to support advocacy, health equity, and amplify the voices of local and regional organizations. This month we are featuring one of our winners, Taskeen Health Initiative. Based in Karachi, Taskeen Health Initiative is a nonprofit working to change people’s attitudes and behaviors towards mental health and wellbeing in Pakistan through awareness, education, expression, and advocacy. We recently spoke with Taskeen’s Sen ..read more

GHC Joins WHO Healthcare Data Collaborative Board Global Health Council recently joined the WHO Healthcare Data Collaborative governing board. The Healthcare Data Collaborative convenes more than 1,100 individual members from over 450 organizations and represents a diverse range of stakeholders. It serves as a platform to discuss the quality and use of data, and how to improve weak/fragmented health information systems. In this new role, GHC will advocate for governments and key stakeholders to design health information systems that prioritize and routinely collect data from populations for wh ..read more

At a time of growing health, humanitarian, and development crises, the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget, released this week by the Biden Administration, lacks the ambition needed to meet immediate global health challenges and adequately prepare for those that may occur in the future. Though the majority of global health accounts were funded at FY23 enacted levels, these resources have been stagnant for far too long. Simply maintaining current funding levels is, effectively, a decrease. The proposed cuts of more than $700 million to global health programs – including a reduction in th ..read more