Honoring the life of Dr. Paul Farmer by recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to adopt a 21st-century global health solidarity strategy and take actions to address past and ongoing harms that undermine the health and well-being of people around the world.

This House Resolution (H. Res. 629) is a non-binding statement that honors Dr. Paul Farmer and calls on the Federal Government to adopt a comprehensive, 21st-century global health solidarity strategy. It frames health outcomes in poor countries as interconnected with U.S. policy and global governance, and it urges actions to address both historical injustices and current structural barriers that contribute to preventable deaths worldwide. While it does not itself authorize new programs or funding, it outlines ambitious policy goals and funding targets designed to reshape U.S. leadership in global health, encourage stronger health systems in low- and lower-middle-income countries, and pursue reparative measures for past harms. Key elements include a focus on stronger health systems through the Five S’s (staff, space, stuff, systems, social support), increased and better-aligned global health financing, reforms to global governance and tax systems to reduce illicit flows, and the pursuit of reparations for historic injustices. The resolution ties these ideas to concrete funding targets (e.g., $125 billion per year for global health and reaching 0.7% of GNI in U.S. development aid) and to broader reforms such as debt cancellation, democratization of major international financial institutions, and new indicators of progress beyond GDP.