Senator Susan Collins has been a steadfast champion for medical research and global health programs during her nearly three decades in the Senate. As Vice Chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Senator Collins has played a pivotal role in protecting and expanding funding for global health research at the National Institutes of Health and other key agencies. Additionally, over her career, she has supported several critical bills to bolster global health innovation, including introducing the Reach Every Mother and Child Act to advance innovative tools to end preventable child and maternal deaths and cosponsoring the 2021 PASTEUR Act to boost antibiotic development and the 2019 End Tuberculosis Now Act to catalyze new tools to combat tuberculosis.
Recognized for her ability to reach across the aisle to forge bipartisan solutions, Senator Collins keenly understands the potential of health research investments. “Biomedical research holds tremendous promise for treating many of the most costly and devastating diseases we face,” she has stressed.
Nearly all maternal and child deaths occur in the developing world, and each year, millions of these deaths occur because of treatable or preventable causes….It is vital that the United States continue to provide global leadership in the areas of maternal, newborn, and child health.”
Senator Susan Collins
Congressional Champion Honoree
