Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba has agreed to send emergency teams of health care workers to seventeen nations. The United States has added $128 million in funding to fight COVID-19 through

This is nothing new for either country. Cuba has been known to deploy its health care workers during public health crises for decades, and the U.S. federal government has an even longer, established commitment to funding life-saving work across the globe. However, this unprecedented crisis and its impact both within our country and abroad, underscore the importance of processes and policies that promote collaboration for health, and present an opportunity to ask what lessons the United States can learn from Cuba.

known to deploy its health care workers during public health crises for decades, and the U.S. federal government has an even longer, established commitment to funding life-saving work across the globe. However, this unprecedented crisis and its impact both within our country and abroad, underscore the importance of processes and policies that promote collaboration for health, and present an opportunity to ask what lessons the United States can learn from Cuba.