In a guest post for the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network's (MFAN) ModernizeAid blog, GHTC Director Kaitlin Christenson reflects on a speech US Agency for International Development Administrator Raj Shah delivered at the National Institutes of Health and the need for US agencies to work together to advance the development of health technologies needed to achieve US global health goals.
In a guest post for the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network's (MFAN) ModernizeAid blog, GHTC Director Kaitlin Christenson examines the Obama administration's new Global Health Initiative and how it seeks to drive advancements in health R&D to deliver new tools to maxmimize US investment in international development more broadly.
In an op-ed in The Hill, GHTC Steering Committee members call on US policymakers to ensure R&D is included as part of three major US global health and development efforts: the Global Health Initiative, the Presidential Study Directive on US Global Development Policy, and the Department of State's review.