Administration moving the 'right way' by emphasizing global health coordination at country levels

The recent announcement "that the Administration's signature Global Health Initiative (GHI) was being replaced by a new Office of Global Health Diplomacy at State was greeted with withering criticism from many in the global health community," PSI CEO Karl Hofmann writes in this post in the organization's "Healthy Lives" blog. But "this change matters less than one might first think," he continues, writing, "The aim to achieve greater integration of Washington agencies and their individual health appropriations was never as likely nor frankly important as the aim to achieve more integrated health programming at country level." Hofmann concludes, "Putting more emphasis on making global health integration a programmatic reality at the country level is probably the right way for the Administration to bring GHI principles to life" (7/16).