Global Health Leadership Helps America Win

U.S. global health leadership is among the highest-return investments the U.S. government makes—for American security, American prosperity, and American influence in the world:

U.S. global health programs are some of the most effective tools in America’s national security arsenal. These cost-effective investments keep Americans safe by stopping outbreaks before they reach our shores; bolstering our influence abroad; protecting U.S. jobs and supply chains; and delivering measurable results in saving lives and reducing human suffering.

The importance of U.S. global health investments extends beyond humanitarian goals; it is a strategic imperative. In the past two years alone, U.S. global health initiatives helped contain nearly 250 outbreaks—from cholera to mpox to measles—across more than 40 countries. When Rwanda detected and contained a Marburg outbreak in 2024 largely on its own, it drew directly on the laboratory systems, disease detectives, and surveillance infrastructure that two decades of U.S. investment had built. That is effective global health assistance in action: American investment creating the conditions that enable our partners to protect both
themselves and others.