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
Global Health Action an impact factor of 1.646, which in 2016 had grown to 1.794. The Research Gate Journal Impact in 2015/2016 was 2.25. Global Health Action Global Health Action is a peer-reviewed open access healthcare journal published by Co-Action Publishing on behalf of the Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, hosted by the Unit of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine at Umeå University, Sweden, and physically located within the University Hospital of Umeå. The journal's editorial board consists of members from universities in Australia, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain,