Emily Bass

Sent out to the field on Friday Jun 26, fresh batch of data-related documents reconfigures the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy’s Rumsfeld Matrix for the America First Global Health Strategy. A generous interpretation of the new docs—to which I am, just now, inclined1—is that they leave a narrow but discernible pathway for the US government data collection on global health that does not fail Congress, taxpayers and the beneficiaries of care.

The Department of State's June 5 funding announcement for Nigeria is the clearest sign yet that State is taking over activities that, for years, have been led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Ugandan implementation plan for the America First Global Health Strategy, portions of which are shared here for the first time, is long on bullet-pointed lists and soaring aspirations and, for all its hundreds of pages, surprisingly thin on explanations of how those aspirations are expected to translate into measurable public health results.