Health is at the heart of human progress. It determines whether parents can work to support their families, children can attend school, women can survive childbirth, and infants can grow and thrive. Where health services are strong and accessible, families and communities flourish. Where health services are inaccessible, weak, or nonexistent, families suffer, adults die prematurely, and communities unravel. The Obama Administration has embraced global health as a core feature of its national security, diplomacy, and development work around the world. On September 22, 2010, President Obama signed a Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, the first of its kind by.
