CSIS report examines link between Palestinian bid for statehood, U.S. global health policy

A report (.pdf) published on Wednesday by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) -- titled "U.S. Global Health Policy in Palestinian Hands?" and written by J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the Global Health Policy Center at CSIS, and Haim Malka, senior fellow and deputy director of the CSIS Middle East Program -- examines the relationship between Palestine's bid for statehood and potential membership in U.N. bodies -- including the WHO -- and U.S. global health policy, according to the report summary. CSIS writes on its website, "Under current U.S. laws, such a decision by the Palestinians would trigger an automatic disruption to the United States' assessed and voluntary contributions to WHO, with no waiver provisions" (3/7).