In the first article in a five-part blog series to coincide with the release of GHTC's policy report, the Global Health Council's blog interviews Dr. Alex Dehgan, Science and Technology Advisor at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), about global health R&D developments taking place at the agency.
In an op-ed in The Hill, GHTC Director Kaitlin Christenson and Dr. Alex Deghan, science and technology advisor at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), write about the impact US investment in global health R&D has on boosting economic growth and spurring private investment.
In a guest post for the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network's (MFAN) ModernizeAid blog, GHTC Director Kaitlin Christenson reflects on a speech US Agency for International Development Administrator Raj Shah delivered at the National Institutes of Health and the need for US agencies to work together to advance the development of health technologies needed to achieve US global health goals.
In a guest post for the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network's (MFAN) ModernizeAid blog, GHTC Director Kaitlin Christenson examines the Obama administration's new Global Health Initiative and how it seeks to drive advancements in health R&D to deliver new tools to maxmimize US investment in international development more broadly.