How the SDGs Will Transform Global Health Governance
The Sustainable Development Goals will have far-reaching implications for global health governance and challenge organizations such as the WHO, writes CFR’s Yanzhong Huang.
At the start of this month, the United Nations replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will guide development actions worldwide for the next fifteen years. The seventeen SDGs are of unprecedented scope and ambition. In addition to traditional development priorities, which were targeted by the MDGs (e.g., poverty eradication, health, and education), the new development agenda includes a broader range of economic, social, and environmental objectives. The new goals could vastly expand access to healthcare and improve health outcomes, but may come at the expense of longstanding health targets, such as ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
