Global health has made tremendous gains over the last several decades. Now, in what many describe as a cataclysmic event for aid funding, the goal should not be to recreate or resurrect those gains, but rather to rethink what they should look like in the decades ahead.
That’s the argument Neil Buddy Shah, CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, made at a recent Devex Pro Briefing on how today’s aid cuts will shape tomorrow’s global health sector.
Citing his favorite statistic, Shah pointed out that in 2000, the average life expectancy of someone born in Malawi was around 42 years.