Partners In Health Supports Transparency in U.S. Global Health Spending

The U.S. Global Health Spending Watch by the Health Security Policy Academy is a unique public dashboard tracking how the U.S. government is obligating and spending money on global health programs in 2025 and 2026. The dashboard was built through contributions from Partners In Health, the Division of Global Health Equity at Mass General Brigham, and TBFighters.  

Following the rapid termination of hundreds of health programs in the beginning of 2025, the data shows that remaining funds have been consolidated to a few major implementors, reversing decades of work to localize care delivery. The analyses of public data show that billions in congressionally approved global health funds are not being spent, as reported by Science and NPR. PIH opposes massive cuts to U.S. global health funding over the next five years, as laid out in bilateral U.S. memoranda of understanding.  

"The data affirms what PIH is seeing around the world: patients are not getting care that the U.S. government has promised to pay for,” says Sheila Davis, CEO of Partners In Health, “and this disproportionately impacts those already made most vulnerable by global systems of inequity."

In the wake of the near-destruction of U.S. foreign assistance in early 2025, improving transparency into U.S. government global health spending is essential to ensuring the right to health for millions of people around the world.  

For nearly forty years, PIH has demonstrated the importance of pairing urgent, lifesaving care with long-term investments to protect the right to health— this dashboard marks a step in advancing health justice by calling for greater accountability.  

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