GHTC submitted written testimony to key Senate appropriations subcommittees urging them to sustain and protect global health R&D funding in the fiscal year 2019 (FY19) budget.
A joint statement developed by GHTC and delivered at the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA) was cited in an article in Homeland Preparedness News.
GHTC analysis regarding the implication's of the President's budget proposal on funding for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was cited in an article in Science.
A statement by GHTC and partners calling for the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Ending TB to issue a political declaration focused on increasing investments in tuberculosis (TB) R&D was delivered at the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA). The statement, which was prepared in partnership with Global Health Council, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and Partners in Health, also encourages the inclusion of child-specific targets for TB R&D and additional resources for R&D to combat drug-resistant TB.