Table of Contents
	About This Tool Kit
	What Is Global Health Research?
	The Global Impact of Infectious Diseases
	Why Global Health Matters to the U.S.
	Making Progress: Research Matters
	U.S. Research Funding
	Funding Medical Research: What's Needed?
	Additional Resources

2. What Is Global Health Research?

Global health research is medical research that focuses on finding solutions—better diagnostics, drugs, vaccines, and other prevention strategies—for global health problems.

When people in the United States hear the term "global health," most think of health problems specific to developing countries, but global health issues like malaria and HIV/AIDS have a broad impact that can affect everyone.

This section includes the following documents to help explain what we mean by global health and why global health research is so important:

This section contains the following:

In Brief: What Is Global Health Research?

What Is "Global Health" and Why Is Research Needed?

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