House Committee on Appropriations Approves FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor HHS) Appropriations Bill & Accompanying Report

The House Committee on Appropriations approved its FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor HHS) appropriations bill, accompanying report, and amendments on September 9, 2025. While most U.S. global health funding is provided to the State Department through a separate appropriations bill, the Labor HHS appropriations bill includes funding for global health programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as funding for global health research activities at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Global health funding amounts specified in the House FY 2026 Labor HHS appropriations bill are as follows (some amounts are not yet known):

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): The bill eliminates funding for several programs at the CDC’s Center for Global Health including: 1) Global HIV/AIDS; 2) Global Tuberculosis; and 3) some global vaccination activities. [i] The bill maintains CDC’s funding at the prior year (FY 2025) level for global polio vaccination and Global Public Health Protection programs, and transfers funding for Parasitic Diseases and Malaria from the Center for Global Health to the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, but does not specify an amount.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH): Funding for global health research activities at the Fogarty International Center (FIC) at NIH matches the prior year (FY 2025) amount. Funding for other global health research activities (i.e., global HIV/AIDS and malaria research) at NIH is not yet known because it is determined at the agency level rather than specified by Congress in annual appropriations bills.[ii]

See the table below for additional details on global health funding (downloadable table here). See other budget summaries and the KFF budget tracker for details on historical annual appropriations for global health programs.

[i] Funding for FY25 was provided in a full-year Continuing Resolution (CR), which maintained FY24 levels. All FY25 amounts and associated notes are based on those specified in relevant FY24 appropriations bills.

[ii] The House FY26 Labor HHS appropriations bill states that “Of the amounts made available in this Act for NIH, the amount for research related to the human immunodeficiency virus, as jointly determined by the Director of NIH and the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, shall be made available to the ‘Office of AIDS Research’ account.”