Morning Briefing

The Kaiser Family Foundation held a live "In Focus" webcast on Tuesday "to assess President Obama's fiscal year 2013 budget proposal and potential implications for global health," the foundation writes on its website. The webcast features a panel of global health policy experts, moderated by Jen Kates, vice president and director of global health & HIV policy at the foundation, "who analyze the Administration's proposal and how it compares to current funding levels, what may happen as the budget winds its way through Congress, and the implications for the future of U.S. global health programs," according to the website, which provides links to the panelists' biographies (.pdf), the foundation's Budget Tracker and a fact sheet on U.S. funding for the Global Health Initiative, among other resources (2/22). A post in the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog provides quotes from panelists Beth Tritter, managing director of the Glover Park Group; Larry Nowels, a consultant with the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign and the ONE Campaign; and Ambassador Mark Dybul, co-director of the Global Health Law Program at Georgetown University Law Center's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law (Aziz, 2/21). The Medill School of Journalism's "Medill on the Hill" also covered the discussion (Morello, 2/21).