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
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.