The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors

The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors

Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health; Institute of Medicine – May 20, 2009
ISBN: 0-309-13822-1, 280 pages, 6 x 9, (2009)

Free PDF [263p.] to download from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12642.html

“……Global health is the goal of improving health for all people in all nations by promoting wellness and eliminating avoidable disease, disability, and death. It can be attained by combining population-based health promotion and disease prevention measures with individual-level clinical care. This ambitious endeavor calls for an understanding of health determinants, practices, and solutions, as well as basic and applied research on risk factors, disease, and disability….”

“…..The Institute of Medicine—with the support of four U.S. government agencies and five private foundations—convened an expert committee to investigate the U.S. commitment to global health and articulate a vision for future U.S. investments and activities in this area. While global health encompasses the health of everyone (including U.S. citizens) and is a shared global aspiration that requires the work of many nations, this report focuses on the efforts of the United States, both its governmental and nongovernmental sectors, to help improve health in low- and middle-income countries.

The committee examined whether the existing architecture, investments, and activities of the U.S. global health enterprise are optimally geared to achieving significant, sustainable, and measurable global health gains. The report communicates specific recommendations, not just for the U.S. government, but also for several nongovernmental sectors, including foundations, universities, nonprofit organizations, and commercial entities…”

Content:

Summary
1 The U.S. Commitment to Global Health
2 Scale Up Existing Interventions to Achieve Significant Health Gains
3 Generate and Share Knowledge to Address Health Problems Endemic to the Global Poor
4 Invest in People, Institutions, and Capacity Building with GlobalPartners
5 Increase U.S. financial Commitments to Global Health
6 Set the Example of Respectful Partnership
7 Call to Action
Appendix A Statement of Task
Appendix B Committee Biographies
Appendix C Public Committee Meeting Agendas
Appendix D Working Group Meeting Agendas
Appendix E IOM Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health Global Health Governance Report
Appendix F Sharing Knowledge for Global Health

THOMAS R. PICKERING (Co-Chair), Vice Chairman, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington, DC; formerly, Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs (retired)
HAROLD VARMUS (Co-Chair), President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; formerly, Director, National Institutes of Health
NANCY KASSEBAUM BAKER, Former U.S. Senator, Burdick, KS
PAULO BUSS, Director, FIOCRUZ Center for Global Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
HAILE T. DEBAS, Executive Director, Global Health Sciences; Chancellor and Dean Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco
MOHAMED T. EL-ASHRY, Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation, Washington, DC
MARIA FREIRE, President, The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, New York
HELENE D. GAYLE, President and Chief Executive Officer, CARE, Atlanta, GA
MARGARET A. HAMBURG,* Senior Scientist, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, DC
J. BRYAN HEHIR, Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, MA
PRABHAT JHA, Canada Research Chair in Health and Development, Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
JEFFREY P. KOPLAN, Vice President for Global Health; Director, Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; formerly, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
RUTH LEVINE, Vice President for Programs and Operations, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington, DC
AFAF I. MELEIS, Professor of Nursing and Sociology, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
NELSON SEWANKAMBO, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
BENNETT SHAPIRO, Chairman, DNDi-North America; Partner, PureTech Ventures, New York; formerly, Executive Vice-President, Merck Research Laboratories (retired)
MARC VAN AMERINGEN, Executive Director, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Geneva, Switzerland
IOM Anniversary Fellow RODERICK K. KING, Instructor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Faculty, Massachusetts General Hospital Disparities Solutions Center, Boston, MA

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