Friends of the Global Fight: NASEM Report: Lifesaving Global Health Investments Also Benefit the U.S.
Sarah Marston, director of communications at Friends, discusses “Global Health and the Future Role of the United States, a 360-page report and interactive website recently released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).” She writes, “Above all, the report states that foreign assistance for health is a sound investment, serving to save millions of people from preventable deaths, protect the American people from pandemics, spur economic growth in developing countries, and build stronger U.S. trading partners (11 of the top 15 U.S. trading partners are former recipients of foreign aid)…” (9/28).