Inside the Decisions that Changed Global Health

An AVAC Conversation with Nicholas Enrich

May 4, 2026

Join us Wednesday, May 20 at 10am ET for a conversation with Nicholas Enrich, author of Into the Wood Chipper and former global health lead at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Inside the Decisions that Changed Global Health will provide Enrich’s inside perspective on the decisions that led to the dismantling of USAID and the foreign aid freeze and what they mean for global health today.

This important conversation comes 16 months after the US Presidential Administration issued a deeply cruel executive order freezing nearly all foreign assistance, halting billions of dollars in already-approved funding under the bad-faith claim of a “90-day review”. What followed – including AVAC’s lawsuit against the US Department of State challenging the legality of the aid freeze – has been a drawn-out, chaotic disruption that stopped life-saving work across the globe, shutting down USAID and other valuable organizations, and harming lives, health, and livelihoods.

Please join us for this important conversation.