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Print Price: $31.95

Format:
Hardback
304 pp.
5.5" x 8.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190221546

Publication date:
April 2015

Imprint: OUP US


"To Save Humanity"

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

Edited by Julio Frenk and Steven Hoffman

"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" 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.

Readership : General public audience interested in global affairs, politics, and public health.

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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 Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University and Research Fellow with the Global Health Diplomacy Program at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs. An international lawyer by training, Hoffman previously worked for the Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, World Health Organization and the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General. He convenes an academic advisory committee on science reporting for Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine.

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Special Features

  • 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.