Julio Frenk, Steven Hoffman

To Save Humanity

What Matters Most for a Healthy Future

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Produktbeschreibung

"The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell." -Dag Hammarskj¿ld, United Nations Secretary-General 1953-1961"To Save Humanity from Hell" 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 148mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780190221546
• ISBN-10: 0190221542
• Artikelnr.: 47863628

Autorenporträt

Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD, is Dean of the Harvard 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 (WHO), 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 Hoffman, BHSc, MA, JD, is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa with courtesy appointments as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemology & Biostatistics at McMaster University and Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health at Harvard University. He previously worked for the Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, World Health Oragnization, and the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General.