Public health to a healthier future. The links between the various sustainable development goals and public health are numerous and well established: The U.S. Global Health Initiative was created in 2009 by President Obama in an attempt to have a more holistic, comprehensive approach to improving global health as opposed to previous, disease-specific interventions. The Global Health Initiative is a six-year plan, "to develop a comprehensive U.S. government strategy for global health, building on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to combat HIV as well as U.S. efforts to address tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, and augmenting the focus on other
Health Systems Global Health Systems Global Health Systems Global is a membership-based society which aims to convene researchers, policymakers and implementers from around the world to develop the field of health systems research. It grew out of a growing need to focus on the health systems performance in low- and middle-income countries. The first International Symposium on Health Systems Research held in Montreux, Switzerland in 2010 was crucial in establishing the society. The society was established in 2012 and organizes a symposium every two years to bring together its members as well as other people and organisations involved in health systems and policy