Funding global health engagement to support the geographic combatant commands / Beth Grill, Trupti Brahmbhatt, Pauline Moore, Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Chandler Sachs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grill, Beth, author.

Brahmbhatt, Trupti, author.

Moore, Pauline, author.

Moroney, Jennifer D. P., author.

Sachs, Chandler, author.

Contributor:

United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs), sponsor.

Rand Corporation, publisher.

Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--International cooperation--Finance.

Public health.

World health.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Medical assistance, American.

Combined operations (Military science).

Global Health.

Armed Forces--Operations other than war.

Expenditures, Public.

Operational readiness (Military science).

United States--Armed Forces--Operations other than war.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense--Operational readiness.

United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures.

United States. Department of Defense.

Medical Subjects:

Global Health.

Place of Publication:

RAND Corporation 2023

Summary:

The combined challenges that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) faces in addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and preparing for a potential conflict with a near-peer adversary have made the need to protect the health and safety of U.S. forces more acute. Global health engagement (GHE) provides an important mechanism to work with allies and partners to develop their medical capacity and medical support capabilities and improve U.S. interoperability with allies and partners to help ensure U.S. force protection and medical readiness. Although the defense community has a broad remit to engage in global health activities with partner nations for the purpose of improving the health and safety of U.S. warfighters, it has not integrated GHE into combatant command operational or security cooperation planning, nor has it provided consistent funding for these activities. In this report, the authors identify the evolving GHE priorities of five of the six geographic combatant commands (GCCs) and the challenges they face supporting combatant command objectives with current sources of funding. They reviewed the relevant GHE instructions and policies and engaged in discussion with more than 75 DoD policy and service leaders and members of the medical community in five GCCs and their service components, as well as members of the policy, legal, and financial communities across DoD. Based on these discussions and a series of follow-up group discussions, they propose several courses of action for providing more-targeted resources to conduct GHE activities in support of GCC objectives.

Contents:

Introduction

Global health engagement priorities and activities

Challenges in meeting GHE priorities with current funding

Summary and recommendations

Appendix A. GHE-related funding sources

Appendix B. GCC GHE priorities and activities

Appendix C. List of organizations involved in discussions

Appendix D. Discussion protocol.