The House Appropriations Committee released its Fiscal Year 2027 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor HHS) appropriations bill on June 4, 2026 and accompanying explanatory report on June 8, 2026.
While most U.S. global health funding is provided to the State Department through a separate appropriations bill (see the KFF budget summary on this funding here), the Labor HHS appropriations bill includes funding for global health programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as funding for global health research activities at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Total global health funding at CDC and NIH through the Labor HHS bill is not yet known, as funding for some programs (i.e. global HIV/AIDS and malaria research) at NIH is determined at the agency level rather than specified by Congress in annual appropriations bills. Funding for global health in the Labor HHS bill remained flat compared to the FY 2026 level as follows:
- CDC: Funding for global health programs at CDC totals $693 million, flat compared to the FY 2026 enacted level. This total includes funding provided for parasitic diseases and malaria, which the House bill moved to CDC’s Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases but is included in the total here for comparison purposes. Within CDC, funding for polio and global public health protection were maintained at the FY 2026 level, and all other program areas (global HIV/AIDS, global tuberculosis, measles and other vaccine preventable diseases) were consolidated into the newly established “Global Emerging Infectious Diseases” line. The House report also directs “continued coordination with the State Department’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy” on the implementation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other global health programs, “provides funding to be programmed by the CDC Director to sustain in-country health security capacities with international partners,” as well as “directs CDC to prioritize existing CDC international staffing, and to provide a briefing to the Committee not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act on the status of its engagement with the Department of State, the agency’s current global health workforce capacity, overseas staffing footprint, and plans to bolster core global health security and infectious disease response capabilities.”
- NIH: Funding for global health research activities at the Fogarty International Center (FIC) at NIH totals $95 million, the same level as the FY 2026 enacted amount.
In addition, Section 235 under the Labor HHS section of the bill specifically states that funding “shall be for the budget activities, and in the amounts specified in the table under each such heading in the report accompanying this Act” instructing the administration to provide the amounts for the areas specified.
See the table below for additional details on global health funding. See other budget summaries and the KFF budget tracker for details on historical annual appropriations for global health programs.
