GHTC issued a statement at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) World Health Assembly (WHA) Stakeholder Listening Session supporting the rapid establishment and full funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Observatory on Health Research and Development, as well as ongoing efforts to establish a pooled fund. The statement, issued with PATH, also calls for transparency to ensure the fund’s foundation is sound science and public health.

A coalition of global health organizations, including GHTC, has called on the G20 to provide leadership in combating pandemics, drug resistance, and major poverty-related and neglected diseases.