Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world.

reaffirms the central role of local frontline health workforce teams in achieving the objectives of global health programs administered by the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense, and other relevant agencies, as well as multilateral institutions supported by the United States;

acknowledges that in the aftermath of natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and conflict, frontline health workers perform critical services under difficult working conditions, often at great personal risk, to save the lives of those without access to medicines, equipment, or safe water and sanitation in many cases;

urges greater global attention and support for local frontline health workers to ensure their protection and ability to respond effectively during humanitarian and public health crises, including protection of frontline health workers and populations in conflict-affected states from deliberate and indiscriminate attacks and targeting;

calls on all relevant Federal agencies to utilize existing flexibilities to implement integrated and cross-sectoral programming across global health accounts to strengthen local frontline health workforce teams and the systems supporting them with concrete targets and clear accountability mechanisms to support delivery of resilient and sustainable access to essential health services; and

encourages all relevant Federal agencies to facilitate collaborative learning between domestic and global frontline health workforce-strengthening programs to improve effectiveness and health outcomes, and to prioritize the mobilization of additional private and public resources to ensure that frontline health workers are able to address the most acute issues to advance sustainable global health progress.