Kaiser Family Foundation: Senate Appropriations Committee Approves FY19 State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) Appropriations Bill This budget summary highlights global health-related aspects of the FY19 State & Foreign Operations (SFOPs) appropriations bill and accompanying report approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee. The SFOPs bill includes funding for U.S. global health…

Fox News: Nikki Haley blasts U.N. report on poverty in America as ‘misleading and politically motivated’ “A United Nations report criticizing the U.S. government on poverty in America is ‘misleading and politically motivated,’ according to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley…” (Edson, 6/21). The Guardian: Nikki Haley attacks damning…

The Lancet: Understanding, preventing, and stopping epidemics Amanda McClelland, senior vice president of the prevent epidemics team, and Thomas R. Frieden, president and chief executive officer, both at Resolve to Save Lives “…Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World, at the U.S. Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington,…

Devex: Set of congressional budget hearings lay out U.S. aid funding “Congressional appropriators met this week to approve the United States foreign aid budget, once again pushing back on President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts and keeping funding at about the same levels as last fiscal year. There was some disagreement…

The Hill: Fighting pandemics abroad is in our own best interest Jonathan Fielding, professor of public health and pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles “…[The U.S. has] been at the forefront of fighting diseases, which often start in Asian or African countries needing rapid assistance to curtail their…

News Deeply: Agriculture and Nutrition Can’t Be Kept in Separate Silos, Say Experts “…USAID’s Strengthening Partnerships, Results and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project … has been working for the last seven years to bring together the disparate worlds of agriculture and nutrition. Heather Danton, the director of food security…

The Guardian: Quitting U.N. human rights council puts U.S. ‘on wrong side of history’ — activists “The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council puts the U.S. on the wrong side of history and should be urgently reversed, activists have said. The council needed reform, said…

Friends of the Global Fight: Friends Applauds House and Senate Appropriations Committees for Robust Funding for the Global Fund and International Assistance “This week the House and Senate Appropriations Committees reported out FY 2019 funding bills for the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS), both sustaining funding…

Brookings: Applying the lessons of the Marshall Plan to U.S. global leadership today Anthony F. Pipa, senior fellow in global economy and development at Brookings, highlights a recent event commemorating the Marshall Plan and examining lessons for U.S. global leadership today. Pipa moderated the event, which featured USAID Administrator Mark…

CBS News: Medical group warns family separation policy may lead to lifetime of harm to children “As hundreds of children are being separated from their parents at the border between the United States and Mexico, pediatricians are sounding the alarm on the potential health effects and developmental damage this can…