USAID’s Global Health Strategic Framework

The U.S.Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) Global Health Mission Statement:
USAID supports partner countries in preventing and managing major health challenges of poor, underserved, and vulnerable people, leading to improved health outcomes by:
• Providing technical leadership in responding to new global health challenges;
• Partnering strategically with a wide range of actors
• Accelerating the development and application of innovation, science, and technology
• Scaling up evidence-based, equitable, inclusive, and locally adapted health solutions
• Strengthening local health system capacity to support partner countries’ leadership of health policies, strategies, and actions;
• Promoting inclusion, gender equality, and female empowerment
• Working efficiently and being effective stewards of public trust and resources.
This document sets out a strategic framework for USAID’s global health sector for 2012–2016. It incorporates the principles of the Global Health Initiative (GHI), which form the foundation of USAID’s work, is set within USAID’s core development mission and priorities, and promotes an inclusive and integrated approach to global health across the U.S. Government for a more effective and efficient approach to sustainable global health outcomes