PATH launches new Center for Policy and Advocacy

Seattle, United States, March 12, 2025 -- The global health sector faces a growing number of interconnected challenges—from contagion and climate change to conflict and economic crises. These challenges threaten decades of remarkable progress in health. Unfortunately, many governments and funders are pulling back on their commitments to global health. To safeguard humanity's shared progress and ensure everyone, everywhere, has access to the essential care they need, PATH has launched a new Center for Advocacy and Policy.

“For nearly 50 years, PATH has driven innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing health issues, and we’ve helped transform the evidence into effective policies to bring those lifesaving solutions to scale,” said Bernard Aryeetey, Senior Director, Policy Advocacy, and Influence. “An earthquake has hit the global health landscape. Funding is shrinking, but our mission isn't. We’ve seen before the consequences when countries lose sight of global health goals. That's why PATH's Center for Advocacy and Policy will step up the fight for essential policies and investments to save lives and protect global health progress, to innovate for greater impact, and to lay the foundations for prosperous communities.”

Business as usual will not work to overcome the challenges we face. The Center for Advocacy and Policy will bring our fit-for-purpose model for more effective advocacy and stronger, more sustainable policy change to life in three key ways:

1. As the foundation for effective change, the Center will operate as a policy lab, conducting research, analyzing data, and translating evidence into innovative, compelling policy solutions.
2. The Center will leverage PATH's deep understanding of how change happens in a place as an advocacy impact accelerator, developing and executing winning policy-influencing strategies.
3. With decades of experience to share, the Center will support our partners as a field catalyst, connecting and mobilizing change-makers and bridging critical gaps to make advocacy movements greater than the sum of their individual parts.

The Center for Advocacy and Policy builds on PATH’s strong record of impact. Since 2018, PATH’s advocates influenced more than 158 policies adopted and helped mobilize funding in 150 government budget lines. We also trained local partners—more than 330 local partners in 2022 and 2023—and established influential advocacy coalitions in research and development, maternal and child health, and access to oxygen, among others.

More information about our multidisciplinary approach can be found on the Center for Advocacy and Policy program page.