Global Health Policy in the Second Obama Term: Chapter 6: Multilateral Partners

This chapter focuses on five multilateral institutions of central importance to any discussion of U.S. policy approaches to global health: the World Health Organization (WHO); the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the GAVI Alliance; UNAIDS; and the World Bank Group. In each case, the authors define how the organization specifically aligns with key U.S. interests; summarize the major policy developments seen during the first Obama admin-istration, followed by the outstanding challenges that remain today; and outline select policy priorities for the second Obama term and the incoming Congress.1 Three propositions emerge across the five brief analyses.