Global Health Council

Liam Sturgess
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Global Health Council

The Global Health Council (GHC) is an American non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. representing the global health industry.

History

On May 15, 2018, the Global Health Council co-hosted Clade X, a pandemic preparedness exercise, at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Washington, D.C. alongside the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH).[1]

Organization

GHC is a member organization of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance,[2] Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH),[3] the CORE Group,[4] the Global Health Security Agenda Consortium[5] and the Washington Global Health Alliance.[6] It is also a partner of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria[7] and UHC2030.[8]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Thomas Nicholson Board Member (2018-2020)[9] Advance Access & Delivery
Kimberly Sutton Policy Manager (former)[10] Shot@Life, United Nations Foundation

Members

Members of the Global Health Council include:[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

  • Abbott Laboratories
  • Abt Associates
  • Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine
  • Access Challenge
  • Access to Medicines Platform
  • Action Against Hunger
  • Action for Global Health
  • Advance Access & Delivery
  • Advancing Synergy
  • Africa Health Budget Network
  • AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)
  • Aidsfonds
  • Alboum Translation Services
  • Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights
  • Amentum[17:1]
  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
  • American Cancer Society (ACS)
  • American Heart Association (AHA)
  • American International Health Alliance
  • American Osteopathic Association
  • American Public Health Association (APhA)
  • American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
  • amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research
  • Arogya World
  • Ashner Associates
  • Bay Area Global Health Alliance
  • BD
  • Better World Campaign
  • Bread for the World
  • CARE
  • Catalysts for Change
  • Center for Global Development (CGD)
  • Center for Global Health Science and Security
  • Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
  • Chemonics
  • Child Family Health International
  • ChildFund International
  • Children's HeartLink
  • Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH)
  • Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
  • Community Health Impact Coalition
  • Conservation International
  • Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
  • Cooper/Smith
  • Co-ordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility Asia (CARAM Asia)
  • CORE Group
  • Corus International
  • DAI
  • Dalberg Global Development Advisors
  • Depressed Black Gay Men (DPGM)
  • Devex
  • Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network
  • Effaced
  • Eleanor Crook Foundation
  • Eli Lilly
  • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
  • EngenderHealth
  • FHI Solutions
  • FHI360
  • Framework Convention on Global Health Alliance (FCGH Alliance)
  • Fred Hollows Foundation
  • Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  • Frontline Health Workers Coalition
  • FSG
  • G4 Alliance
  • Gairdner Foundation
  • Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • GCI Health
  • Georgia Bio
  • Georgia Global Health Alliance
  • Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts
  • Global Alliance for TB Drug Delivery
  • Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth
  • Global Citizen
  • Global Communities
  • Global Focus on Cancer
  • Global Health Action
  • Global Health Advocacy Incubator
  • Global Health Security Agenda Consortium
  • Global Health Strategies
  • Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC)
  • Global Impact
  • Guttmacher Institute
  • Harvard Global Health Institute
  • Helen Keller International
  • High Lantern Group
  • The Hunger Project (THP)
  • Husch Blackwell Strategies (HBS)
  • IMA World Health
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
  • Infinity Communications
  • Integrate Health
  • InterAction
  • International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH)
  • International Association for Dental Research (IADR)
  • International Business & Technical Consultants Inc. (IBTCI)
  • International Cancer Export Corps
  • International Federation of Psoriasis Associations (IFPA)
  • International Food Information Council Foundation
  • International HIV/AIDS Foundation
  • International Medical Corps (IMC)
  • International Partnership of Microbicides
  • International Women's Health Coalition
  • IntraHealth International
  • Jhpiego
  • John Snow, Inc. (JSI)
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
  • Kyle House Group
  • Last Mile Health
  • LivingGoods
  • Malaria No More
  • Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
  • Marked By Covid
  • MassGenics
  • Medic Mobile
  • Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Medicines Development for Global Health
  • Medicines Patent Pool
  • MedinCell
  • Mended Hearts[17:2]
  • Mending Hearts Foundation
  • Merck
  • Miraglo Foundation
  • Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN)
  • mothers2mothers
  • Movement for Community-led Development (MCLD)
  • Nama Wellness Community Centre (NWCC)
  • National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
  • NCD Alliance
  • NCD Child
  • Nestlé
  • No Borders Humanity Organization (NBHo)
  • North Carolina Global Health Alliance
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
  • Nurturely[17:3]
  • ONE Campaign
  • Operation Giving Back (OGB)
  • Operation Smile
  • Pacific Architects and Engineers (PAE)
  • Pandemic Action Network
  • Panorama Strategy
  • Partners in Health
  • Pathfinder International
  • Pfizer
  • Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Policy Cures Research
  • Population Action International (PAI)
  • Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
  • Population Services International (PSI)
  • Preventing Pandemics at the Source
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Project HOPE
  • Public Citizen
  • Public Health Institute
  • Rabin Martin
  • Radicus Tech
  • Realizing Global Health (RGH)
  • Research!America
  • Resolve to Save Lives
  • RESULTS
  • Results Canada
  • Results for Development
  • ReSurge International
  • Right to Health Action (R2H)
  • RTI International
  • Sabin Vaccine Institute
  • Save the Children
  • Seed Global Health
  • Sightsavers
  • Smile Train
  • Spark Street Advisors
  • SpeakUpAfrica
  • Students Providing Aid (SPAID)
  • STUF United Fund
  • Task Force for Global Health
  • TB Alliance
  • Treatment Action Group (TAG)
  • Triangle Global Health Consortium
  • UNICEF USA
  • UNITE
  • United for Global Mental Health
  • United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
  • United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USPC)
  • United Way of National Capital Area
  • United Youths Foundation
  • University of Miami Department of Public Health Sciences
  • University of Utah
  • U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC)
  • USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health
  • VillageReach
  • Washington Global Health Alliance
  • WaterAid
  • What To Expect Project
  • White Ribbon Alliance
  • Women in Global Health (WGH)
  • Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS)
  • World Hepatitis Alliance
  • World Obesity Federation
  • World Vision
  • YIELD Hub

Funding

The council has also received funding from:[18]

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Dreyfus Foundation
  • Ford Foundation
  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)
  • Open Society Institute
  • Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Rockefeller Foundation
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Wallace Genetic Foundation[19]
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

  1. Clade X: A Global Health Security Pandemic Simulation Highlights Need to Support Global Health Security Initiatives. (2018, August 16). Global Health Council. http://archive.today/2022.04.12-160103/https://globalhealth.org/clade-x-a-global-health-security-pandemic-simulation-highlights-need-to-support-global-health-security-initiatives/ ↩︎

  2. Members. Bay Area Global Health Alliance. Retrieved January 6, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.06-074235/https://bayareaglobalhealth.org/our-members ↩︎

  3. Members A-Z. Consortium of Universities for Global Health. Retrieved July 29, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.07.29-004936/https://www.cugh.org/about/member-institutions/members-a-z/ ↩︎

  4. Member Directory. CORE Group. Retrieved May 15, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230515053058/https://coregroup.org/membership/apply-now/member-directory/ ↩︎

  5. Member Profile Archives. Global Health Security Agenda Consortium (GHSAC). Retrieved August 16, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220816152920/https://ghsacngs.org/pl-categs/member-profile/ ↩︎

  6. Our Members. (2022). Washington Global Health Alliance. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729015321/https://www.wghalliance.org/our-members/ ↩︎

  7. Partners. RBM Partnership to End Malaria. Retrieved September 21, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220921232738/https://endmalaria.org/about-us/governance/partner ↩︎

  8. UHC2030 Partners. UHC2030. Retrieved July 26, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.07.26-204520/https://www.uhc2030.org/about-us/uhc2030-partners/ ↩︎

  9. Tom Nicholson. Independent Institute. Retrieved May 23, 2025, from https://www.independent.org/person/tom-nicholson/ ↩︎

  10. Meet The Shot@Life Team. Shot@Life. Retrieved May 13, 2012, from http://archive.today/2012.05.13-052916/http://shotatlife.org/about-us/our-team/ ↩︎

  11. Members. Global Health Council. Retrieved July 26, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.07.26-224918/https://globalhealth.org/about-us/members/ ↩︎

  12. Ariale, J. 2020 Annual Report (pp. 4, 6). Global Health Council. Retrieved July 27, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220727033051/https://globalhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GHC_AnnualReport2020_Final.pdf ↩︎

  13. Pace, L. 2019 Annual Report. Global Health Council. Retrieved July 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220727060242/https://globalhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GHC2019AnnualReportOnline-1.pdf ↩︎

  14. Pace, L. Establishing a New Narrative for Global Health: 2018 Annual Report (pp. 18–19). Global Health Council. Retrieved July 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220727061946/https://globalhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GHC-2018-Annual-Report_Online-1.pdf ↩︎

  15. Pace, L. Confronting New Realities in Global Health: 2017 Annual Report. Global Health Council. Retrieved July 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220727063635/https://globalhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GlobalHealthCouncil2017AnnualReport.pdf ↩︎

  16. Members. Global Health Council. Retrieved January 19, 2025, from https://web.archive.org/web/20250119145904/https://globalhealth.org/about-us/members/ ↩︎

  17. Members. Global Health Council. Retrieved July 2, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230702223107/https://globalhealth.org/about-us/members/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  18. Pielemeier, J. D. (2002). Evaluation of the Global Health Council (pp. 6, 13, 78–79). United States Agency for International Development. https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pdaby237.pdf ↩︎

  19. 2021 Grants. (2022, February). Wallace Genetic Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20220806230643/https://www.wallacegenetic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/WGF-2021-Grantees.pdf ↩︎

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Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess

Liam Sturgess is a Canadian writer, researcher and investigative reporter focused on issues of human rights and civil liberties, with a particular interest in the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the founder of White Rose Intelligence.

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