September 8, 2025
Expanding global health finance: Convening report and agenda for action
Over the last two decades, global health investments have enabled historic progress: child mortality has been cut in half, death rates from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria have fallen by over 60% and global life expectancy has increased by six years.
This progress is remarkable, but it’s at risk. Global health has long been underfunded, and recent reductions in official development assistance (ODA) have only deepened the financing gap. To protect vital progress and to continue funding essential health services, the world must preserve ODA and domestic resources as cornerstones of global health financing while also pursuing a much broader range of funding options.
Our new analysis, co-published with RESULTS and the ONE Campaign, examines how global health stakeholders across all sectors can creatively leverage financing mechanisms to mobilize new resources to fill critical gaps in global health funding.
The report synthesizes insights from a health financing convening held earlier this year and highlights practical ways for stakeholders to harness synergies and unlock substantial resources from three main funding pillars: domestic resources and ODA, multilateral financial institutions and the private sector.