Timeline of global health TB Partnership. UN's Millennium Development Goals establishes health care as an important goal (not just combating infectious diseases). Later in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals build on the MDGs to outline the objectives that will transform our world by ending poverty, helping the environment, and improving health and education. More specific disease-targeting organizations are created primarily to fund healthcare plans in developing countries, including the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. These organizations (especially the WHO) adopt new strategies and initiatives, including the 3 by 5 Initiative to widen the
World Health Summit April 13–14, 2015 in Kyoto, the World Federation of Academic Institutions for Global Health (WFAIGH) was accepted as eighteenth member. During the World Health Summit 2015, additional members from Geneva, Italy, Portugal, and Taipei, China were accepted. In 2016, Tehran University of Medical Sciences joined as new member, Istanbul University was accepted in 2017: The M8 Alliance secretariat is based at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin at the Mitte campus. English is the operating language of the group and the World Health Summit. World Health Summit The World Health Summit is a health care conference on global health policy development.