In recent developments, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has, among other things, called for fewer childhood vaccinations, established an NIH Center on Vaccine Harms, altered CDC measles data amid active surges, and overhauled advisory panels. The administration has also proposed reallocating NIH medical research funds directly to the Pentagon, withheld $1 billion in Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota, and is restricting international visa-holding researchers. In an analysis of the toll of US aid cuts since 2025, The New York Times reported that 1,700 global HIV treatment sites have had to shut down. There is much more news below.

Resources

Advocacy and Mobilization

• Alliance members BCG, CUGH (here and here), DNDi (here and here), FHI 360 (here and here), For Our Health (here and here), Friends of the Global Fight (here and here), GAIA (here and here), Gavi (here and here), Gilead Sciences (here and here), Global Health Corps (here and here), Global Health Council (here and here), Global Health Technologies Coalition (here and here), IDEO.org (here and here), inSupply Health, JSI (here and here), Maya Health Alliance | Wuqu’ Kawoq, MedShare, Nexleaf Analytics (here and here), North Carolina Global Health Alliance (here and here), PATH (here and here), Pathfinder (here and here), Population Services International (here and here), Public Health Institute (here and here), ReSurge International, Roche, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Seed Global Health (here and here), Stanford (here and here), UC Berkeley (here and here), UC Davis (here and here), UCGHI, UCSF (here and here), UNICEF (here and here), USA for UNFPA (here and here), Vital Strategies (here and here), WomenLift Health, and Zenysis have spoken with the press or issued statements.
• Find and Contact Your Representatives: U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Here is a list of key decision makers in Congress, their contact information, as well as sample language to consider.

Navigating the Legal Questions and Resources for Workers

• Humentum offers resources for navigating the foreign assistance pause.
• Connective Impact has launched an open-source resource document in response to the U.S. foreign aid policy shifts.
• Devex has summarized 5 rapid response funds for organizations affected by the US aid freeze.
• Just Security has a Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions.
• Tech Change is sharing a job board and resource curation for those impacted.
• Other job opportunities sites include: Philanthropy News Digest, Idealist.org, WorkforGOOD, FastForward, Reconsidered, The Impact Job, ExecSearches.com, and Foundationlist.org.
• Find a Job I Devex
• Nonprofit Jobs | Work for Good
• The Pivot Playbook
• Find and Fund Defunded Global Health Grants: database of defunded NIH global health research projects seeking support
• Founders Pledge: Nonprofit organization that works to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and charities making impact in the world
• Fired but Fighting, a Coalition of Fired HHS Employees and Allies

Tracking Impact

• GHTC’s Innovation Interrupted: an interactive tool that documents a selection of global health research efforts and illustrates the scientific, economic, and human impacts
• Foreign Assistance Tracker
• Fogarty International Center: Fogarty’s Impact in the US | Fogarty’s Impact in Facts, Numbers, and Stories | NIH-funded Global Scientific Advances Can Benefit the American Public
• US Global Leadership Coalition: How Shrinking America’s International Assistance Damages U.S. National Security, Economic, and Humanitarian Interests
• KFF’s Analysis of US and Global Fund Funding Reductions in MOU Countries
• Unlock Aid’s Solutions Index: a reference tool for donors, policymakers, and partners seeking the most promising organizations delivering results across global health, food security, nutrition, and other sectors
• Summer Book Club Exploring Reimagining Global Health [Mike Reid and Eric Goosby]
• A Shock to the System: Global Health After U.S. Aid Cuts [May 2026]
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Update [March 2026]
• Center for Global Development | Who Is Getting New US Foreign Assistance Contracts and Awards?
• Devex | The Aid Report
• The State Department Is Asking the World for New Global Health Ideas [Jirair Ratevosian]
• Health Security Policy Academy: U.S. Global Health Spending Watch
• The Impact Metrics Dashboard (Boston University) visualizes the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations. The site has an impact tracker for PEPFAR, tuberculosis (TB), and Medicaid and is looking for additional collaborators. Read more.
• GHTC tracks how US investments in global health R&D are paying economic and health dividends in each state. (Learn more)
• Also see Center for Global Development I How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save?
• KFF has a new series of fact sheets on the status of U.S. global health aid cuts, from maternal and child health to TB and malaria, and fact sheets on global health program impact.
• KFF also has an overview of President Trump’s executive actions on global health and a timeline of events that provides a detailed overview of actions (and counter-actions) related to the administration’s efforts to freeze all U.S. foreign aid and dissolve USAID.
• Grant Watch’s Weekly Terminated NIH Grants Report presents an overview of recent trends in NIH grant terminations, reinstatements, new grant initiations, and continuations.
• Emory Rollins Public Health has shared data showing the impact of public health cuts.
• Devex Court Watch: The latest on the USAID docket
• Devex ‘The Trump Effect’, highlighting the latest news, in-depth analysis, and exclusive insights on how the Trump administration’s policies are reshaping global development.
• Gates Foundation I Health Aid Saves Lives. Don’t Cut It, provides an aggregation of US aid cut impacts
• ProPublica I Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
• Verified and Vetted Science Accounts to Start Following for Public Health Accuracy [Cate Russel]
• State of Disunion: The Impact of Us Funding Cuts on Global Health R&D
• NEJM I Health and Medical Research Funding in a Divided America — How to Increase Support
• STAT+ | Tracking RFK Jr.’s Promises to Remake Health in America
• KFF: U.S. Global Health Country-Level Funding Tracker

Sources

• CNN | Trump’s Funding Cuts Created ‘The Perfect Storm’ That Slowed the Government’s Cyclosporiasis Response 
• STAT | HHS Vaccine Committee Quietly Gets New Charter
• Axios | FDA Still Experiencing Attrition (Story #2)
• Roll Call | Trump Administration Puts Kibosh on HIV Prevention Funding