Transcript ASTMH Leadership May 2015 Hill Day Prep

ASTMH 2015
Capitol Hill Day Asks
ASTMH “Asks”
Provide robust funding for
NIH, CDC, USAID and DoD
global health and infectious
disease programs for fiscal
year (FY) 2016
ASTMH “Asks”
Provide increased funding for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, including:
Funding the CDC Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious
Disease Program at $669 million
Funding the CDC Global Health Program at $469
million
Funding and supporting the Global Health Security
Agenda
ASTMH “Asks”
 Provide robust funding to the Department of Defense to
support its infectious disease research efforts, including
malaria and neglected tropical disease drugs and vaccines
through the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious
Diseases, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the
U.S. Naval Medical Research Center.
 Provide at least $32 billion to the National Institutes of Health
with a commensurate funding to the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases and the Fogarty International Center.
ASTMH “Asks”
Ensure that USAID invests in research and advanced
development of future tools needed to treat and control NTDs
and malaria though the USAID global health programs, including:
 Supporting $125 million for bilateral neglected disease
control efforts at USAID and investment in research and
development of future tools at USAID.
 Allocating at least $674 million for bilateral malaria efforts,
including the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). This
appropriation should be separate and above the funding for the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global
Fund).
ASTMH “Asks”
 Funding the United States’ FY 2016 voluntary contribution to
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and TB at $1.35
billion. This allocation should be separate and above the funding
for the PMI and other bilateral malaria efforts.
 Increasing USAID funding of clean water and sanitation
programs under the Global Health and Child Survival program
and the Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act contributing directly
to protecting human health and responding to humanitarian crises,
and improving drinking water supply, sanitation and hygiene.