Pandemics cross borders faster than ever. Why eliminate a giant in the fight against them?
We live in a time when pandemics cross borders faster than ever. Yet to the horror of many of us working in global health, President Trump's budget would completely eliminate the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center — one of the most effective tools we have to fight global diseases.
For almost 50 years the center has done exactly what it was set up to do: Promote and facilitate international health research of mutual benefit to the U.S. and other countries, while training thousands of health researchers in more than 100 countries. And it has done this on a meager $69.1 million, less than 0.1% of the NIH's overall $31.3 billion budget.
