Re‐Envisioning Global Health Partnerships in Times of Decreasing Foreign Aid From the U.S. and Other High‐Income Countries: The Child Thrive Coalition

ABSTRACT Massive cuts to global foreign aid by the U.S. and other high‐income countries have disrupted the global health ecosystem necessitating new models of collaboration and presenting an opportunity to replace inequitable partnership models, historically predominant in international development. This article presents the Child Thrive coalition as an innovative approach to address child and adolescent health inequities in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The Child Thrive coalition builds on localization efforts to center equity in global health partnerships and to transfer power to communities in order to affect community‐level change that addresses both the immediate impacts of child and adolescent health inequities as well as the structural factors that maintain disadvantaged socioeconomic and political environments.