RT Journal
A1 Adashi EY, Lee E
T1 The president's global health initiative at midterm: Progress in the balance
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD November 21
VO 308
IS 19
SP 1977
OP 1978
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.14287
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.14287
AB 
On May 5, 2009, President Obama announced the launch of the Global Health Initiative (GHI), the first ever effort to coalesce and overhaul the global health portfolio of the United States under one thematic and operational roof.1 Asking Congress to approve $63 billion in funding over 6 years (fiscal years 2009-2014), the president called for a “new, comprehensive global health strategy” that is focused on results and on an “integrated approach.”1 In functional terms, the GHI was to bring about unity of purpose and greater coordination to a fragmented enterprise characterized by stand-alone disease-specific programs and minimal interagency synergy.1 Viewed more broadly, the GHI, the leading worldwide global health donor, was to constitute a key ingredient of a national security framework wherein development features as prominently as diplomacy and defense.2