Global Health Technologies Coalition materials
The following reports and fact sheets from the Global Health Technologies Coalition provide further insight into our main advocacy priorities.
The FDA's Role in Global Health: Helping safe, effective health tools reach people in need worldwide
This fact sheet from the Global Health Technologies Coalition outlines the FDA's role in global health and offers recommendations for how the FDA can continue to play an important role in efforts to ensure the safety of health tools to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious diseases that affect millions of people worldwide every year.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication Date: November 2011
Op-ed piece calls for bipartisan support for medical research
Kaitlin Christenson, coalition director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition, and Michael Castle, former US Representative from Delaware write an op-ed piece in Roll Call discussing the bipartisan nature of medical research for global health.
Author: Kaitlin Christenson and Michael Castle
Publication Date: May 25, 2011
The second annual policy report from the GHTC documents promising policy actions taken over the past year in the areas of US investments in global health and international development, regulatory pathways to ensure the safety and efficacy of health tools, and incentives and innovative financing mechanisms to spur global health product development. The report offers recommendations for how US policymakers can continue to take the lead in improving health worldwide.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication Date: May 2011
Sparking Innovation to Save Lives: GHTC Policy Report Brief (408 KB PDF)
This one-page document provides an overview of the content and recommendations included in the GHTC's second annual policy report.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication Date: May 2011
Exploring the role of the US Government in a future advance market commitment (258 KB PDF)
This fact sheet from the Global Health Technologies Coalition provides specific recommendations to US policymakers about the role and engagement of the US Government in a future advance market commitment.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication Date: March 2011
The transformative power of global health research (202 KB PDF)
This fact sheet from the Global Health Technologies Coalition examines how US leadership in global health research helps to saves lives worldwide and provides domestic economic benefits.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: March 2011
In a guest blog post on The Hill blog, Kaitlin Christenson and Alex Dehgan discuss how global health research and development activities impact the US economy, create essential jobs, and help the United States become a leader in the world on science and technology.
In a guest blog post on the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network's blog, Kaitlin Christenson, coalition director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition, comments about Administrator Shah's speech at the NIH and writes about US support for global health research, the US Government's agenda on developing and delivering health technologies and tools, and the importance of a coordinated US research agenda.
In a guest blog post on the Science Speaks blog, Kaitlin Christenson, coalition director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition, writes about recent scientific breakthroughs in global health and the important role the US government has to support this life-saving research and development.
Author: Kaitlin Christenson
Publication date: December 2010
In an interview on the Center for Global Health Policy's Science Speaks blog, Kaitlin Christenson, coalition director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition, speaks about the importance and success of US Government support for global health research.
Author: Science Speaks blog
Publication date: November 2010
Incentives and innovative financing for global health product development (508 KB PDF)
This fact sheet from the Global Health Technologies Coalition explores different incentives and innovative financing mechanisms and their role in global health product development.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: October 2010
Do prizes offer enough incentive to drive global health product development? (website)
In a guest entry on the Results for Development Institute's Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment blog, Kaitlin Christenson, director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), explores the role of incentive prizes in the development of global health products.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: October 2010
Innovation in the GHI: How science and research can make foreign aid more effective (276 KB PDF)
In a new entry on the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN) blog, Kaitlin Christenson, manager of the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), calls for science, research, and innovation to be promoted and elevated in US international development efforts, including the Global Health Initiative (GHI). Link to the online blog post.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: October 2010
Research and the Millennium Development Goals (203.32 KB PDF)
This fact sheet from the Global Health Technologies Coalition examines how research for new global health tools can help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: September 2010
Leveraging research in foreign assistance (128.9 KB PDF)
This fact sheet from the Global Health Technologies Coalition examines the role of innovation in international development and makes recommendations to elevate global health research in the foreign aid reform process.
Authors: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: July 2010
Restoring US foreign aid to health (352 KB PDF)
The Hill’s “Congress Blog” recently published an op-ed authored by leaders of the Global Health Technologies Coalition’s Steering Committee. The piece calls for US leadership around research and innovation for new global health tools. Link to the online article.
Authors: Global Health Technologies Coalition Steering Committee
Publication date: June 2010
The first annual report of the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC) focuses on the GHTC's three priority areas—US policies related to public financing, regulatory pathways, and incentives and innovating financing. It highlights the role US agencies and policymakers play in advancing innovation for global health products, as well as makes policy recommendations to help accelerate the development of new global health technologies.
Authors: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: April 2010
Global Health Technologies Coalition summary of the annual policy report (275.94 KB PDF)
This one page document provides an overview of the first annual policy report of the GHTC and explains the three main advocacy priorities for the coalition.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: April 2010
Global Health Technologies Coalition brochure (344 KB PDF)
This brochure provides an introduction to the Global Health Technologies Coalition, including its membership, activities, and advocacy issues.
Author: Global Health Technologies Coalition
Publication date: April 2010
