"To Save Humanity": What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

Frenk, Julio; Hoffman, Steven

ISBN 10: 0190221542 / ISBN 13: 9780190221546

Published by OUP USA, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: "To Save Humanity": What Matters Most for a Healthy Future
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190221542
• ISBN 13: 9780190221546
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 520 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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

"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.

About the Author

Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD, is Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan 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 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 J. Hoffman, BHSc, MA, JD, is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health at Harvard University, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Part-Time) at McMaster University. He previously worked for the Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, World Health Organization and the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General.