The Way Forward for Global Health | The Futures Summit

The year 2025 reshaped the global health landscape and marked a sharp departure from the remarkable achievements of the prior quarter century. Development assistance for health dropped by an estimated 20 to 40 percent globally, driven by reductions in foreign assistance from the United States, United Kingdom, France, and other high-income countries. The U.S. realignment towards bilateral rather than multilateral programming advanced a novel yet untested approach to mobilize domestic commitments and achieve country self-reliance, while Global South countries advanced their own vision for the future of health security and sovereignty. At the same time, breakthroughs in drug discovery and the promise of AI for health delivery are rapidly reshaping the realm of the possible. These changes have unfolded amidst increasing geopolitical instability and a steady rise in chronic and infectious biological threats, all of which endanger decades of progress against global health goals. 

On Tuesday, April 14, from 11:00am to 12:00pm, CSIS will convene several global health leaders to discuss the way forward. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center will moderate a conversation with Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI); Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC); and John-Arne Røttingen, CEO of the Wellcome Trust. Together they will discuss how the funding environment for global health has shifted internationally, how they are focusing their organizations’ priorities as the world moves more fully into a post-Covid moment, and what innovations they are most excited to deliver in the years ahead. 

The CSIS Futures Summit is made possible through generous support from Chevron Inc. (Founding sponsor), ADM, Cisco, and the Embassy of Denmark in Washington D.C.