Signal US philanthropy and the AMA move capital and professional backing behind men's health

Summary

The Men's Wellbeing Initiative presents US developments as a counterpart to the national strategies being adopted elsewhere. Melinda French Gates gave 20 million dollars to the American Institute for Boys and Men. The American Medical Association passed a resolution backing offices of men's health at federal and state level. In the US case, change is carried by private money and professional endorsement rather than by legislation. The Initiative lists these moves with the WHO Bulletin editorial and the Lancet framework as signs of growing institutional attention to men's health. Whether the resolution leads to actual government offices is not addressed.