summarize: COVID-19 has starkly illustrated the importance of international preparedness and coordination to ensure health and safety within U.S. borders. It is also important, however, to bolster public health preparedness globally. The United States has already provided $19 billion in health and humanitarian assistance to assist COVID-19 response efforts around the world,11 but the transition to broader, institutionalized investments in global public health will require reliable, sustained funding and follow-through