Global Health Council to close operations this year

On Friday, the Board of Directors of the Global Health Council (GHC) announced "[w]ith deep regret, ... that the Council will close operations within the coming months," according to a statement on the organization's homepage. "For the past four decades, the Council has been the neutral convening place for a diverse community of organizations, all advocating for improvement and equity in global health" and "working together to form broad-based coalitions to address challenges that affected us -- whether advocating for increased U.S. government funding on global health or developing common positions on major health policy issues," the statement says, concluding, "Although the Global Health Council will no longer play the same role, we will continue to fight for the goals that first inspired us to action" (4/20).