Rubio’s strategy is working: Reform global health without retreating from it |
Last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development was absorbed into the Department of State. We assume this isn’t news to any readers. As USAID’s former administrator under the first Trump administration and a former member of the House Appropriations Committee, we understand the importance of these programs and are often asked: Is America really stepping back from global health?
The answer is less obvious: No. You don’t have to take our word for it.
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In recent weeks, the State Department has quietly finalized a wave of new bilateral health agreements — strengthening outbreak detection and response in West Africa, reinforcing health sovereignty in Central Africa, deepening infectious-disease cooperation in the Caribbean, and launching a new hemispheric health-security partnership in Panama.
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Far from retreating, the United States is reshaping how it leads with the administration’s America First Global Health Strategy.
As Congress continues to scrutinize foreign assistance throughout the appropriations process and the administration reshapes U.S. engagement abroad, one principle should guide the debate: reform what works — don’t abandon it.
For more than two decades, U.S. leadership in global health has been a pillar of international stability and American influence. Initiatives such as the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and........