With the closure of the Global Health Initiative office and the establishment of the Office of Global Health Diplomacy within the State Department last week, "[t]he Obama administration made some quiet changes ... that strengthen one of its most significant policy shifts: that global health and foreign assistance are critical components of diplomacy," Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), writes in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog. The new office "will implement the principles of the Global Health Initiative that make economic and humanitarian sense, namely a woman-centered approach, country ownership, and health sector integration," she writes, adding, "The GHI's principles have the potential to make real progress against the world's greatest health challenges, and we have to pay meticulous attention to ensuring they are put into action."