The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require the many actors in global health to develop and implement transformative approaches to «ensure healthy lives and wellbeing for all». Some of the most significant breakthroughs in global health were achieved through focused action on the three ‘health MDGs’. The challenge now is to complete the MDG agenda, support countries in building sustainable health systems and achieving UHC, and address the determinants of health and other issues, such as NCDs and AMR. Sustainable development means focusing on developing the health system’s capacity rather than filling the gaps. What does this mean for the global health actors and agencies that contributed significantly to the MDG agenda? How will they address transformation challenges and adapt their approaches and governance? What does this paradigmatic change in the approach to the SDGs imply for global health and its organisations?
These questions were addressed by the Panel discussion organised at the margins of the 69th session of the World Health Assembly.
Event materials
Background documents
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Buse and Hawkes, Health in the SDGs - Ready for a paradigm shift?, in Globalization and Health, 2015
