Conducting Virtual Global Health Engagement (GHE) activities in the Midst of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for the Department of Defense GHE Enterprise.

The global COVID-19 pandemic resulted in restriction of non-essential travel across the globe, as seen in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Memorandum, "Force Health Protection Guidance (Supplement 4): DoD Guidance for Personnel Traveling During the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak" (11 March 2020). This resulted in the suspension of most, if not all, Department of Defense (DoD) security cooperation (SC) programs, including DoD Global Health Engagement (GHE) activities.1 One such program is the African Peacekeeping Rapid Response Partnership (APRRP), which relies heavily on face-to-face interactions with select African Partner Nations (PNs), and which was significantly impacted by the inability to conduct in-person training with key partners.