--- title: Global Health Funding Falls Short of Needs description: Outbreaks like Ebola highlight the large gaps in the way money is raised and used for protecting people’s health, a new study finds canonical: https://time.com/3955561/global-health-funding/ author: Alice Park article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-13T15:38:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:11:40.181Z article:section: Health og:title: Here's How Much More Money Is Needed to Boost Global Health og:description: Outbreaks like Ebola highlight the large gaps in the way money is raised and used for protecting people’s health, a new study finds og:url: https://time.com/3955561/global-health-funding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Much More Money Is Needed to Boost Global Health twitter:description: Outbreaks like Ebola highlight the large gaps in the way money is raised and used for protecting people’s health, a new study finds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How Much More Money Is Needed to Improve Global Health > Sponsored content. 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Despite recurrent outbreaks of pandemic infections such as SARS and, most recently, Ebola, donors have committed less than a third of the estimated $3.4 billion that is needed to maintain a strong pandemic preparedness system, according to the World Bank. Overall, donor countries have spent only half of the $6 billion that the World Health Organization says is needed to maintain global public health. What’s lacking, the study authors say, is a more focused system for investing in global health that emphasizes programs designed to achieve certain public health functions, such as vaccinating a particular population or corralling antibiotic resistance or the spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. It’s an approach championed by philanthropic organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the organization that funded the study. Part of the funding conditions of its programs include specifying outcomes and a timeframe for achieving them. “For example, countries like China and India would substantially benefit from market shaping to lower drug prices and increased international efforts to control multi-drug resistant tuberculosis,” Dr. Marco Schaferhoff, association director of SEEK Development in Germany and one of the co-authors of the report, said in a statement. “At the same time…donor countries should also ensure that vulnerable and marginalized populations in middle-income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees, and people who inject drugs, receive sufficient support.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3955561/global-health-funding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3955561/global-health-funding/"},"headline":"Here's How Much More Money Is Needed to Improve Global Health","datePublished":"2015-07-13T15:38:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:11:40.181Z","description":"Outbreaks like Ebola highlight the gaps in the way money is raised and used for protecting people’s health, a new study finds","url":"https://time.com/3955561/global-health-funding/","keywords":["global health","Public Health","Infectious Disease","ebola"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alice Park","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/alice-park/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/global-health/","name":"global health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3955561/global-health-funding/","name":"Here's How Much More Money Is Needed to Improve Global Health"}}]}] ```