CFR Receives Major Grant for Global Health and Development in Foreign Policy
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The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to announce a new grant to launch the Project on Rebuilding the Case for Global Health and Development in Foreign Policy. It will spur fresh thinking and mobilize support for global health and development finance.
“Now more than ever, the world needs governments and industries, individuals, and institutions working toward the shared prosperity and security that robust global health and development finance can deliver,” said Bloomberg Chair in Health Thomas J. Bollyky, who is senior fellow for international economics, law, and development and directs the Global Health program at CFR.
The project will undertake the following activities:
- Conduct a strategic review of foreign policy approaches to global health, a data-driven assessment of the risks and opportunities of reductions in foreign assistance, the national interests tied to international health cooperation, and the achievable objectives for using foreign policy to advance health goals amid a shifting geopolitical landscape.
- Mobilize sustainable sources of development finance by analyzing strategies for increasing concessional lending, blended capital, and advance purchase contracting; piloting innovative financing mechanisms at development finance institutions; and hosting convenings on proposals to meet the needs of vulnerable populations.
- Engage with bipartisan state and local officials by enhancing convenings and partnerships to broaden conversations around global health and development as core U.S. foreign policy interests.
Stephanie Psaki, CFR senior fellow for global health and national security, will help lead the project. Dr. Psaki has two decades of experience spanning the White House, federal agencies, and international research and program management. Most recently, she served as the inaugural U.S. coordinator for global health security at the National Security Council. Dr. Psaki holds a master’s degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“We are pleased to have Stephanie to help lead this project,” said CFR Senior Vice President Shannon K. O’Neil. “Her expertise in global health, foreign policy, and national security will help ensure this project fulfills its mission to inform U.S. foreign policy on global health.”
The Council is grateful to the Gates Foundation for its generous grant to bolster CFR’s work on aligning global health priorities with contemporary foreign policy realities and mobilizing new sustainable sources of development finance.
For more information about the project, please contact the Global Communications team at [email protected].