President Obama’s Global Health Initiative, launched in May 2009, seeks to achieve ambitious goals and targets in HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, maternal health, child health, nutrition, family planning, and neglected tropical diseases. Seven core principles underlie the Global Health Initiative approach: 1. Focus on women, girls, and gender equality 2. Encourage country ownership and invest in country-led plans 3. Strengthen and leverage other efforts 4. Increase impact through strategic coordination and integration 5. Build sustainability through health systems strengthening 6. Promote learning and accountability through monitoring and evaluation 7. Accelerate results through research and innovation The global community lacks agreed-upon indicators and approaches for measuring the implementation of these principles and evaluating their contribution to health outcomes. This think-tank will solicit participants’ experience and expertise with an eye towards identifying promising approaches for advancing the state-of-the-art in measurement and evaluation of principles 1, 3, and 7. #2012Conference #HealthEvaluation