GHTC joined a civil society statement from the Global Health Council—in response to the special session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board (EB)—imploring WHO member states to take urgent action to accelerate the development and equitable global delivery of COVID-19 technologies.
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GHTC endorsed a Global Health Council letter urging Congress to allocate at least US$20 billion in emergency supplemental funding for programs funded through the International Affairs Budget, including at least $11 billion for bilateral global health programs and the multilateral response to support a holistic global response to COVID-19.
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GHTC has joined partners to issue a call to action through the G20 Health and Development partnership, urging leaders to fully fund the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, commit to greater investment and focus on antimicrobial resistance, incentivize sustainable funding models for capacity-building and preparedness, and recognize and act upon the recommendations from the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board and the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
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GHTC sent a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), calling for the administration to sustain and protect global health R&D in the fiscal year 2022 (FY22) budget.
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GHTC joined a scientific community letter to Congressional leaders urging Congress do do everything possible to maintain the United States' membership and funding for the World Health Organization (WHO).
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GHTC joined a letter endorsed by nearly 350 public health organizations urging Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar to support the critical role of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States' COVID-19 response. The letter expresses concern that evidence-based public health messages from the agency have been disregarded or silenced in the response, and it calls for increased funding for CDC's core budget.
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GHTC endorsed a call to action to world leaders urging additional funding and support for the development and implementation of COVID-19 diagnostics.
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GHTC submitted feedback on white paper released by Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, outlining proposals to shape pandemic preparedness legislation to be considered by the committee this year. GHTC provided a number of policy recommendations to strengthen the health R&D ecosystem, including improving coordination between R&D agencies and increasing funding for R&D for naturally-occurring threats at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
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GHTC has joined a number of efforts condemning the US government decision to termination relations with the World Health Organization (WHO).
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GHTC submitted written testimony to the Senate State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) Appropriations Subcommittee urging them to sustain and protect global health R&D funding in the fiscal year 2020 (FY21) budget.
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