PATH and Research!America, in cooperation with the Congressional Research & Development [R&D] Caucus, held a briefing addressing the economic impact of U.S. investment in global health and global health research.
Key quotes from Global Health Is America's Health Hill briefing:
"We still have a lot of work to do on the Hill to make sure research is not a side show or an afterthought - global health research is central to all the work we deal with and is not just the purview of the science committee but should be just as important to foreign relations committees."
—Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) (pictured at left)
"At every step of the process in our nation's health, it is the research that underpins the action - from bench to bedside to curbside to countryside, research must be strongly supported to assure our population's health."
—Jo Ivey Boufford, MD, New York Academy of Medicine
"There is an unmet need in being able to respond to young people's explosion of interest in global health, so when we support global health, we're supporting U.S. institutions and universities that create these programs and partnerships."
—Michael Johnson, MD, Fogarty International Center, NIH
"International collaborative research allows us to address these issues [speaking of breast cancer] faster and more broadly than we can on our own."
—Richard Love, MD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Speakers:
Jo Ivey Boufford, MD
President, The New York Academy of Medicine; Ambassador,
Research!America's Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research- Michael Johnson, MD
Deputy Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health - Richard Love, MD
Professor, Internal Medicine and Public Health, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; Ambassador, Research!America's Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research
Moderators:
- Karen A. Goraleski, Vice President, Public Health Partnerships,
Research!America - Rachel Wilson, Director of Policy and Advocacy, PATH