RESOLVED: That the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria should be transformed

On September 14, CSIS hosts the second debate in our year-long series,

Fault Lines in Global Health

On the topic:

Resolved: That the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria should be transformed to become the Global Fund for Health.

Affirming the resolution, Mark Dybul of Georgetown University argues for the transformation of the Global Fund into the principal financier for integrated health delivery. Julian Schweitzer of the Results for Development Institute will respond. Noted health expert and correspondent Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, will moderate the debate.

Please RSVP to the debate at: www.smartglobalhealth.org/faultlines2 

In the past decade, global health has become a new U.S. foreign policy priority, enjoyed exceptional bipartisan support, and climbed to an annual U.S. government investment of $10 billion, fully a third of all U.S. foreign assistance. In this same period, several complex and polarizing issues have gained momentum. They defy easy solutions, divide and fragment constituencies, and impede progress. In the midst of ever tighter budgets and heightened scrutiny of investments, these controversies can corrode consensus and have serious downstream implications: in term of strategy, core values, policy coherence and the allocation of future dollars.

The Fault Lines in Global Health series is intended to generate an informed, civil, bipartisan, and open airing of opinion on these critical global health controversies. Please join us:

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
B1 Conference Center