The Australian Global Health Alliance and Pacific Friends of Global Health 2025-26 Federal Pre-Budget Submission

The Australian Global Health Alliance and Pacific Friends of Global Health welcome the opportunity to put forward this 2025-26 Federal Pre-Budget Submission to the Treasury.

The world stands at a critical juncture in global health. The international community has navigated the COVID19 pandemic with varying degrees of success through science and collaboration while the gross inequity between and within countries was revealed. Conflict and global warming have contributed to rapid displacement and migration. Population aging and changing birth rates contribute to challenges ahead in this region particularly with workforce capacity and disease burden.

Australia has world-class leaders and institutions in global health that are also at the forefront of thinking through their own partnerships and engagement regionally and locally. We have contributed to stemming HIV infections domestically and abroad, to introduction of new technologies and treatments in cervical cancer and drugs for neglected disease, as well as being world class leaders advocating for the protection of populations from the commercial determinants of health such as tobacco control. A strong and cohesive secure region and world is based on a strong foundation of global health equity for all. It is imperative that domestic and multilateral institutions can continue to deliver for populations