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March 2011
Obama Administration releases new details on the Global Health Initiative
March 2, 2011 -- The Obama Administration has released an updated version of its strategy document for the Global Health Initiative (GHI). The document includes updated and expanded descriptions of how the GHI will harness research and innovation to improve health worldwide. The document says that under the GHI, “research will continue to spur innovation for the discovery and development of new biomedical interventions and technologies, such as drugs, diagnostics, and vaccines; medical devices, such as safe syringes; and information and communication technologies, such as mobile telephones and other data-transmitting devices that have the potential to improve people’s health.”
It adds that because of the GHI’s whole-of-government approach, the program “is working through existing governmental mechanisms and partnering with private-sector donors, foundations, and universities to support research and development.” The GHI will “continue to seek synergies between GHI programmatic activities and existing research partnerships of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US Agency for International Development, and other agencies that have active biomedical and public health research programs,” according to the strategy.
Finally, the strategy document states that the GHI will work to improve research and regulatory capacity in endemic countries in order to “support clinical trials, bring new, high-quality innovations to partner country markets; and monitor the quality, safety, and efficacy of the supply chain.” See the link below for more information.
