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Health and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Age of Miracles

To continue the extraordinary progress of the past fifteen years, the next U.S. administration should further integrate global health, development, and pandemic preparedness into the U.S. national security architecture.

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  • By Thomas J. Bollyky
    Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program

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  • Eric Goosby
    UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis and Former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis and Former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Integrating global health into U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy has helped save lives and advance U.S. interests abroad. To sustain and expand that legacy, the next administration should continue to elevate and integrate global health, development, and pandemic preparedness in the U.S. national security architecture. Only then can the United States fulfill its foreign policy goals and prolong this “age of miracles.”

*Editor’s note: A previous version of this brief indicated that the United States is the largest donor to both GAVI and the Global Fund. The United States is the largest donor to the the Global Fund and the fourth-largest donor to GAVI.