"To Save Humanity"

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

Edited by Julio Frenk and Steven Hoffman

Nearly 100 short, accessible essays on today's most pressing topics, authored by leading global figures from politics, science, academia, and advocacy
Contributors include luminaries, former presidents, and celebrated dignitaries from all sectors of society
Taken together, can serve as a primer of current world events and a prescriptive to-do list for future policies and interventions

"To Save Humanity"

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

Edited by Julio Frenk and Steven Hoffman

Description

"The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell."
-Dag Hammarskjöld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961

The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ambitious charter that since 2000 has measurably reduced the worldwide burdens of poverty, hunger, and disease.

With the MDGs set to expire in 2015, continued progress on these fronts is anything but certain. In addition to the persisting threats of the 20th century, globalization has sped the development of new threats — pandemics, climate change, chronic disease — that now threaten rich and poor countries equally.

"To Save Humanity from Hell" is a collection of short, honest essays on what single issue matters most for the future of global health. Authored by the world's leading voices from science, politics, and social advocacy, this collection is both a primer on the major issues of our time and a potential blueprint for post-2015 health and development. This unparalleled collection will provide illuminating and thought-provoking reading for anyone invested in our collective future and well-being.

"To Save Humanity"

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

Edited by Julio Frenk and Steven Hoffman

"To Save Humanity"

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

Edited by Julio Frenk and Steven Hoffman

Author Information

Edited by Julio Frenk, Dean and T&G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, and Edited by Steven Hoffman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD, is Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and T&G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health & International Development. He is an eminent authority on global health who served as the Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Senior Fellow of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He received the Clinton Global Citizen Award for changing "the way practitioners and policy makers across the world think about health."

Steven Hoffman, BHSc, MA, JD, is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa with courtesy appointments as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemology & Biostatistics at McMaster University and Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health at Harvard University. He previously worked for the Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, World Health Oragnization, and the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General.

Contributors:

Fazle Hasan Abed
Founder and Chair, BRAC

Rebecca Affolder
Special Adviser,Office of the UN Special Envoy on Ebola

Irene Agyepong
Professor, University of Ghana

Recep Akdag
Former Minister of Health, Turkey

Sudhir Anand
Professor, University of Oxford
Michelle Bachelet
President, Republic of Chile

Joyce Banda
Former President, Republic of Malawi

Julia Belluz
Health journalist, VOX

Seth Berkley
CEO, Gavi,the Vaccine Alliance

Ela Bhatt
Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association,India

Agnes Binagwaho
Minister of Health, Rwanda

Michael Bloomberg
Founder,Bloomberg Philanthropies

Albina du Boisrouvray
Founder, FXB Foundation and FXB International

Irina Bokova
Director-General, UNESCO

Larry Brilliant
Senior Advisor, Skoll Global Threats Fund

Gro Harlem Brundtland
Deputy Chair, The Elders

Felipe Calderón
Former President, Mexico

Ray Chambers
Special Envoy for Financing the Health MDGs and Malaria, United Nations

Gerald L. Chan
Co-Founder, Morningside Group

Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organization

Helen Clark
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Bill Clinton
Former President, United States

Paul Collier
Professor, University of Oxford

Francis Collins
Director, U.S. National Institutes of Health

Nigel Crisp
Member, House of Lords, United Kingdom

Suraya Dalil
Former Minister of Public Health,Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Sally Davies
Chief Medical Officer, United Kingdom

Esther Duflo
Professor, Massachisetts Institute of Technology
_ Mark Dybul
Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria

Carissa F. Etienne
Director, Pan American Health Organization

Paul Farmer
Co-founder, Partners in Health

Richard Feachem
Director,UCSF Global Health Group

Harvey V. Fineberg
President,Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Colleen M. Flood
Professor, University of Ottawa

Julio Frenk
Dean, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thomas Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Melinda Gates
Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Amanda Glassman
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development

Paul Glasziou
Professor, Bond University

Tore Godal
Special Adviser on GlobalHealth, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs

Lawrence Gostin
Professor, Georgetown University

Teguest Guerma
Former Director-General, AMREF Health Africa

Angel Gurría
Secretary-General, OECD

Jane Halton
Secretary, Australian Department of Finance

Margaret A. Hamburg
Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Katharine Hayhoe
Associate Professor, Texas Tech University

David L. Heymann
Head, Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security

Steven J. Hoffman,
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa

Arianna Huffington
President and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post Media Group

John Ioannidis
Professor, Stanford University

Jay Ireland
President and CEO, GE Africa

Elton John
Founder, Elton John AIDS Foundation

Mustapha Sidiki Kaloko
Commissioner for Social Affairs, African Union

Angélique Kidjo
Founder, Batonga Foundation

Jim Yong Kim
President, World Bank Group

Felicia Knaul
Harvard Global Equity Initiative

Anthony Lake
Executive Director, UNICEF

John N. Lavis
Professor, McMaster University

Alan Lopez
Professor, University of Melbourne

Adetokunbo O. Lucas
Adjuct Professor, Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health

Graca Machel
Founder Graca Machel Trust

Michael Marmot
Professor, University College London

Malebona Precious Matsoso
Director-General, South African National Department of Health

Anne Mills
Provost, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Suerie Moon
Lecturer, Harvard School of Public Health

Chaeli Mycroft
Ability Activist and Co-Founder, The Chaeli Campaign

Sania Nishtar
Founder, Heartfile

Anders Nordstrom
Ambassador for Global Health, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Minister of Finance, Nigeria

Gorik Ooms
Researcher, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Zulma Ortiz
Health Specialist, UNICEF Argentina

Trygve Ottersen
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Bergen

Sean Penn
Founder and CEO of J/P Haitian Relief Organization

Navanethem Pillay
Former High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations

Peter Piot
Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Thomas Pogge
Professor, Yale University

Michael E. Porter
Professor, Harvard Business School

Mariana Mota Prado
Associate Professor, University of Toronto

K. Srinath Reddy
President, Public Health Foundation of India

Zain Rizvi,
JD Candidate, Yale Law School

Judith Rodin
President, Rockefeller Foundation

John-Arne Røttingen
Director of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Simon Rushton
Research Fellow, University of Sheffield

Richard Sezibera
Secretary-General, East Africa Community

Rajiv Shah
Administrator, USA Agency for International Development

Kenji Shibuya
Professor, University of Tokyo

Michel Sidibe
Executive Director, UNAIDS

Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka
Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

Jonas Støre
Leader, Norwegian Labour Party

David Stuckler
Professor, Oxford University

Larry Summers
President Emeritus, Harvard University

Keizo Takemi
Member,Japanese House of Councillors

Christy Turlington Burns
Founder, Every Mother Counts
Kent Walker,
General Counsel, Google Inc.