Lee Wells of the Touch Foundation discusses his work on training health workers in Tanzania and how the United States can most efficiently use its global-health aid dollars.

Watch former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora discuss his recommendations on how best to manage public health programs during the global financial crisis, including changes to health insurance policies.

Listen to former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora discuss his recommendations on how best to manage public health programs during the global financial crisis, including changes to health insurance policies.

Land-based epidemics aren't the only thing we should be worried about, says Laura H. Kahn.

Kammerle Schneider and Laurie Garrett argue that "there is a need to return to the foundations of the Alma Ata Declaration signed thirty years ago with the goal of providing universal access to primary healthcare."

Michael Gerson criticizes the Obama administration's decision to ask the coordinator of PEPFAR to step down.

Though the United States of America faces its toughest budgetary and economic challenges since the Great Depression, it cannot afford to eliminate, or even reduce, its foreign assistance spending. For clear reasons of political influence, national security, global stability, and humanitarian concern the United States must, at a minimum, stay the course in its commitments to global health and development, as well as basic humanitarian relief. In this report, Laurie A. Garrett makes recommendations for the future of foreign aid under a new presidential administration and Congress.

UN General Assembly Resolution 63/33, regarding global health and foreign policy, was adopted on November 26, 2008.

CFR Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett writes that the United States cannot afford to reduce its foreign assistance spending, even though it faces its toughest budgetary challenge since the Great Depression.

This declaration regarding global health was made by participants at the World Health Organization Congress on Traditional Medicine in Beijing, China on November 8, 2008.

Listen to Michael T. Osterholm, director of research and policy at the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease, discuss the need for pandemic preparedness and offer suggestions for a detailed response strategy involving the public and private sectors as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.

Learn more about CFR's State and Local Officials Initiative.

Politicians have it in their power to solve the food crisis, but they must be willing to end the biases against big commercial farms and genetically modified crops and do away with farm subsidies.

President Bush's AIDS initiative, reauthorized for another five years this summer, wins widespread praise even from those highly critical of other administration policies. Yet some health experts worry AIDS funding has grow disproportionately large compared with other U.S. development spending.