U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Health

The COVID-19 pandemic exemplified how an institute concerned with biodefense could pivot to serve public health needs

The Biden administration launched efforts to reduce cervical cancer and lead exposure that could have brief policy lives

Controversies about national security and global health are changing in a post-pandemic, geopolitical, and warming world

Long dominated by the West, global health is changing because of discontent with the past and the return of geopolitics

A collapse in the effectiveness of antibiotics could come without warning and imperil entire health systems

Health cooperation with Uganda highlights Africa's role in Russian foreign policy and Ugandan motives in a changed world

Russian-Venezuelan relations now involve the health sector, a bid to expand Moscow's influence in Latin America

Russia has altered its approach to global health amid the war in Ukraine and geopolitical rivalry with the West

Geopolitics and domestic polarization have stymied the president's efforts to reclaim U.S. global health leadership

The latest G7 summit revealed the expanding gap between health threats and policy solutions in a world of many crises

Covert U.S. information operations during COVID-19 expose the dangers that global health faces when rival powers compete

Progress has been made, but difficult issues need resolving before a pandemic treaty can make the world safer and fairer

Where the presidential debate mentioned or missed on COVID responses, drug pricing, Medicare, and reproductive health

The impact of conflict on civilian health and well-being is both tragic and dangerous to prospects for sustained peace

Smallpox could reemerge, but new technology can prepare the world for a future outbreak

The major amendments misdiagnose problems that arose during COVID-19 and create processes that paper over disagreements

The passage of a new IHR marks a key moment for global health governance

As abortion comes under fire in the United States, some countries have taken a stance toward expanding access

Months of negotiations and a final weeklong push ended with impasses over technology sharing and accountability measures

The most recent meeting of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control confronted persistent problems and new threats

Regulatory regimes beyond public health are targeting Big Tobacco's abuses

Amid a rise in global conflict, a new report shows that health-care workers are being killed at alarming rates

Changes in uses of digital technology improved cybersecurity, offering a blueprint for making biotechnology more secure

The strategy seeks to make U.S. foreign policy on global health more effective

The World Health Assembly can help mainstream climate action into the global health agenda

Improving health in Africa requires more effective and respectful collaboration with global partners

Pan-African public health ambitions challenge U.S. health diplomacy in Africa

Plans for a new public health order for Africa are central to the continent's future in a geopolitical world

With final negotiations set for late April, two experts explain the nuances of the Pandemic Agreement's latest draft

Political disagreements on sustainability and climate action damage prospects for needed changes in food production

U.S. health care is crafting food-based nutrition interventions to combat diet-related diseases

Healthy, sustainable, and resilient food systems require changes in food policies and private-sector engagement

PEPFAR's former chief of staff describes why its latest reauthorization still spells uncertainty for the program

Talks to finalize a pandemic agreement and IHR amendments enter decisive stages as the world's divisions deepen

How Biden could intervene against Israel's assaults on Gaza's hospitals

India is well positioned to shape the future of global health

The Indian pharmaceutical industry offers lessons for building vaccine-production capacity in developing countries

WHO's global plan for influenza vaccines blazed a trail for more vaccine production in low- and middle-income countries

Will the WHO hub realize its vision before the next global health crisis?

Four years after China locked down Wuhan, the country is still feeling the aftershocks

Discussions will intensify in 2024 to strengthen the global health security architecture

Health got more attention, a change that magnifies the unprecedented dangers an unprepared world faces

Early achievements and challenges ahead

Kissinger’s legacy informs the U.S. foreign policy experience with global health

The conference in Dubai seeks to elevate health in climate policy

The Biden-Xi summit did not advance U.S.-China health security cooperation

President Joe Biden’s push to finish the IPEF highlights how trade and health issues have evolved

The Biden administration’s foreign policy vision exposes serious challenges for U.S. global health engagement

Attacking drug cartels and applying pro-life principles to aid echoes ideas from the war on terrorism

A presidential transition strategy contains a conservative vision for U.S. global health policy

“International cooperation is the only way to escape the cycle of panic and neglect,” says Croatia’s former president

Summits and high-level meetings will address post-COVID global health challenges

A pandemic action priority list

The New Delhi declaration positioned global health within a nonaligned development strategy

The bipartisan importance of PEPFAR

Recent geopolitical moves further reshape the international context for global health

An interview with Ambassador-at-Large John Nkengasong

Record heat clarifies the severity of the foreign policy problems climate mitigation and adaptation pose

A domestic crisis confronts transnational challenges and geopolitical calculations

Anti-abortion positions on PEPFAR’s reauthorization highlight the transformed politics of U.S. global health policies

After COVID, foreign policy on global health operates in a different political ecosystem

Missed opportunities for impact in Africa in the Pandemic Fund’s first round of grants

COVID-19 has contributed to the fragmentation of domestic and international politics

Proposed changes to the mold-breaking program could break it for good

At age twenty, PEPFAR's continued success depends on weathering an illiberal wave worldwide

Another president's emergency plan for another global health crisis

The conference created a "loss and damage" fund but failed on mitigation and adaptation

The summit revealed the G20's and global health's vulnerabilities in a geopolitical world

It has proven to be "a good investment with astonishing results in saving lives"

The elections produced double-edged results for U.S. efforts to strengthen public health at home and abroad

A "minilateral" approach is needed to strengthen global biorisk management

Advancing American interests in global health requires transforming U.S. health diplomacy

A biological attack anywhere would have profound and far-reaching political, military, and health consequences

Another crisis in Haiti sharpens the imperative for new thinking among democracies

The war has entered a more dangerous phase with grim portents for health

Countering Russian disinformation creates opportunities to enhance the BWC's role against dangerous pathogens

COVID-19 raises questions about these global health programs and U.S. national interests

How should the trade system change after the pandemic?

Communication failures during the pandemic require strategic attention

The Global Fund is pivotal to tackling current pandemics and emerging threats

The outbreak has limited implications for U.S. foreign policy on global health

The emergency declaration on monkeypox reinforces concerns about the WHO's role in global health governance

Proposals to transform U.S. cyber foreign policy can inform rethinking global health engagement

Recent rulings from the court have consequences for U.S. global health engagement

The G7's focus on war, power, and ideology overshadowed global health concerns

Countries began to reshape global health governance but left themselves room to change course

The Fox News pundit joined the global health debate and invited viewers to think about what he said—so I did

The assembly meets as global health transitions into a dangerous post-COVID world

Ambitious U.S. objectives in the war will affect health on Ukrainian battlefields and in nations beyond

The transformation of American politics threatens foreign policy engagement on global health

The declaration takes geopolitical and ideological stands that raise questions for global health

The pandemic has triggered regressive state-based law and policy reforms across America

Geopolitics and war threaten ASEAN's post-COVID plans for economic recovery, integration, and resilience

Rethinking U.S. engagement on global health requires transforming domestic and international institutions

The U.S. government needs transformational reform to combat threats to health security

Twenty years ago, Congress created a global health bill that changed the world and this week, they could do it again

The invasion of Ukraine darkens the future for global health

The pandemic and climate change will deepen foreign policy disinterest in NCDs

Progress in biotechnology will advance pandemic defenses even more in coming decades

The Russian threat to Ukraine has nothing to do with the pandemic, but the situation has implications for global health

Latin American countries need U.S. power to restore global health values

LMICs should find better ways to cooperate against global health threats

Low- and middle-income countries face challenges in upcoming negotiations on pandemic governance

Ready or not, the future of pandemic governance will be determined next year

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, this week's summit underscores the need to rethink global health in foreign policy

The pandemic exposed a troubling gap between the letter and the spirit of human rights law

Strengthening global health governance after COVID-19 does not require a pandemic treaty

Mexico and the United States need to reformulate their bilateral health diplomacy in the aftermath of COVID-19

Multi-stakeholder collaboration on natural climate solutions can transform climate action

Domestic politics, not diplomacy, will determine what "America is Back" means for climate change

Mismanagement of COVID-19 at home squandered India's advantages in vaccine diplomacy

The WHO has an opportunity to align public health and domestic politics on border measures after the pandemic

U.S. foreign policy on global health did not require the G20 Summit to be transformative 

Jakarta tests a new foreign policy strategy on the challenges created by COVID-19

Climate change adaptation is now an imperative for U.S. foreign policy on global health

Health threats in a hotter world require policy action at every level of political and social life

The COVID-19 pandemic has battered the belief that democracy is good for global health

The pandemic has made reversing the global decline in democracy and freedom harder

U.S. foreign policy commitment to both health and democratic norms is imperative

The pandemic is fading in importance for balance-of-power politics

At this week's White House pandemic summit and beyond, all eyes are on the United States

After the 9/11 and anthrax attacks, efforts to mesh counterterrorism and public health have failed

A review of the new book "Aftershocks" by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright

Border measures will be a more complex and controversial challenge for the post-pandemic world

The Taliban's triumph has terrible implications for past, present, and future U.S. foreign policy on global health

Framing pandemics as security threats failed to prepare the United States for COVID-19

The pandemic proves that "health security" should no longer drive global health policy

Low-income countries and non-alignment in the wake of the pandemic

The pandemic will accelerate the development of a "multiplex" world

Geopolitics, global health, and foreign policy

The United States must prepare for future pandemics in a geopolitical world

American leadership arrives at the G7 summit

What the World Health Assembly meeting revealed

A series on the future of U.S. engagement on global health