Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen, Senate Colleagues to Host Roundtable on Global Health Impacts of Trump Administration’s Disastrous Assistance Freeze

WASHINGTON – Today, Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM ET, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senate colleagues will host a roundtable discussion on The Dangerous Consequences of Funding Cuts to U.S. Global Health Programs. They will be joined by global health experts who can speak to the impact of cuts on global health infrastructure and security, as well as opportunities for PRC to assert itself in the wake of the withdrawal of U.S. support.

WHAT: Roundtable discussion on the health and security implications of the Trump Administration’s global health funding cuts

WHEN: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM ET 

WHERE: Senate Visitor Center Room 200/201 

WHO:

• Dan Schwarz, Vice President, Management Sciences for Health
  
  
• Atul Gawande, former Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID 
  
  
• Additional participants to be announced 

RSVP:  Due to space limitations, media must RSVP to Tessa Browne at Tessa_Browne@foreign.senate.gov and Abigail White at Abigail_White@foreign.senate.gov.

NOTE: This event will be livestreamed. RSVP to receive the link. 

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