Germany's efforts to build diplomatic and scientific bridges in global health are especially important amid rising nationalism in the US, UK, Brazil, India, and elsewhere. “With its growing economic power and increasing political inflünce, outside expectations are rising, but so is the skepticism,” he says, pointing to a recent position paper. He argüs that Germany still needs to do much more to advance global health, by increasing support for multidisciplinary global health research and establishing more postgraduate global health programs