TY - JOUR T1 - Multisectoral Policies and Programming: High-Income Countries Can and Should Be Learning From the Philippines and Other Low- and Middle-Income Countries JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 428 LP - 430 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00541 VL - 9 IS - 3 AU - Madeleine Short Fabic Y1 - 2021/09/30 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/9/3/428.abstract N2 - See related article by Siy Van et al.The global health field often makes a false distinction between research of relevance to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and research of relevance to high-income countries (HICs). This practice feeds into and mirrors development practices wherein technical assistance unidirectionally flows from HICs to LMICs; where HICs have experience and teachings to share with LMICs but generally do not recognize the reverse is also true; and where partnership is limited by power hierarchies that elevate the expertise and knowledge of HICs above that of LMICs.1Reading the Siy Van et al. article,2 “Trends in national-level governance and implementation of the Philippines’ Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law from 2014 to 2020,” reminded me of the opportunities we miss if the global health field implicitly insists that its research and programmatic learnings are of primary relevance to LMICs. Indeed, I would argue that the challenges the authors present related to multisectoral coordination, collaboration, integration, and accountability parallel issues of public health importance in my home country, the United States. Through this lens, I offer a brief synthesis of the challenges described by Siy Van et al.,2 as well as some thoughts on how learnings from the Philippines’ experience could be applied to the United States. In the U.S. context, I focus on 2 multisectoral approaches to pandemic prevention, detection, and response that have increased in prominence in the wake of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic—global health security and One Health.3,4FindingsGovernmental collaboration floundered despite the 2012’s Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act (RPRH)5 law’s guiding principles, which call for “a multifaceted process” that necessitatesthe harmonization and integration of policies, plans, programs and projects that seek to uplift … ER -