Welcome to the U.S. Global Health Spending Watch Blog

This blog is the narrative companion to the dashboard. While the dashboard is designed for exploration—allowing users to examine trends, compare agencies, and interrogate spending patterns—these posts focus on interpretation. Each article takes a specific question, pattern, or anomaly visible in the data and explains what it shows, why it matters, and how it should be understood in policy context.

All commentary and analysis published here draw on the same underlying data and visual standards as the dashboard itself. The charts embedded in these posts are not illustrative add-ons; they are additional views built from the same definitions, methods, and sources. This ensures that readers can move easily between our narrative analysis and exploring the dashboard for themselves.

We see this section as a space for careful, data-driven interpretation rather than definitive answers. If you are working on questions related to U.S. global health financing—whether from a policy, research, advocacy, or implementation perspective—and are interested in contributing an analysis, we would welcome hearing from you.