Global Development Goals
and Linkages to
Health and Sustainability
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Erin Rusch, Rapporteur
Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE WEBINAR SERIES
ON GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT1
JOHN M. BALBUS, Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
LUIZ A. GALVÃO, Area Manager, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC
BERNARD D. GOLDSTEIN, Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA
FRANK LOY, U.S. Representative to the 66th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Washington, DC
KUMANAN RASANATHAN, Health Specialist, Knowledge Management and Implementation Research Unit, United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, NY
JUDITH N. WASSERHEIT, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle
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1 Institute of Medicine planning committees are solely responsible for organizing the workshop, identifying topics, and choosing speakers. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteur and the institution.
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ROUNDTABLE ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
SCIENCES, RESEARCH, AND MEDICINE1
FRANK LOY (Chair), U.S. Representative to the 66th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Washington, DC
LYNN R. GOLDMAN (Vice-Chair), Dean, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University, Washington, DC
HENRY A. ANDERSON, State Health Officer, Wisconsin Division of Public Health, Madison
JOHN M. BALBUS, Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
JAMES K. BARTRAM, Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor, Director of the Water Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
LINDA S. BIRNBAUM, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC
LUZ CLAUDIO, Associate Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
DENNIS J. DEVLIN, Senior Environmental Health Advisor, ExxonMobil Corporation, Irving, TX
RICHARD A. FENSKE, Professor and Associate Chair, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
ALISTAIR FRASER, Vice President of Health, Royal Dutch Shell, The Hague, Netherlands
LUIZ A. GALVÃO, Area Manager, Sustainable Development and Environmental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC
BERNARD D. GOLDSTEIN, Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, PA
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1 Institute of Medicine forums and roundtables do not issue, review, or approve individual documents. The responsibility for the published workshop summary rests with the workshop rapporteur and the institution.
RICHARD J. JACKSON, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
SUZETTE M. KIMBALL, Deputy Director, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, Reston, VA
JAY LEMERY, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, President, Wilderness Medical Society, University of Colorado, Aurora
ANDREW MAGUIRE, Vice President for Environmental Health, Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC
LINDA A. MCCAULEY, Dean and Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
AL MCGARTLAND, Office Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
DAVID M. MICHAELS, Assistant Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC
CANICE NOLAN, Senior Coordinator for Global Health, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
MARTIN A. PHILBERT, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
CHRISTOPHER J. PORTIER, Director, National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
PAUL SANDIFER, Senior Science Advisor to the Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Charleston, SC
JOHN D. SPENGLER, Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
LOUIS W. SULLIVAN, President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
ANNE M. SWEENEY, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University, College Station
G. DAVID TILMAN, Director, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Regents Professor, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
PATRICIA VERDUIN, Chief Technology Officer, Global Research & Development, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Piscataway, NJ
NSEDU OBOT WITHERSPOON, Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network, Washington, DC
HAROLD ZENICK, Director, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC
IOM Staff
CHRISTINE COUSSENS, Study Director (until August 2013)
ERIN RUSCH, Associate Program Officer
HOPE HARE, Administrative Assistant
ROSE MARIE MARTINEZ, Director, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice
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Reviewers
This workshop summary has been reviewed in draft form by persons chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published workshop summary as sound as possible and to ensure that the summary meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process. We wish to thank the following individual’s for their review of this workshop summary:
Jay Graham, George Washington University
Canice Nolan, European Commission
William Sonntag, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Kimberly Thigpen Tart, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the workshop summary before its release. The review of this summary was overseen by Susan J. Curry, University of Iowa. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, she was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this workshop summary was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this summary rests entirely with the rapporteur and the institution.
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Contents
2 REFLECTING ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA
Positioning Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
A Perspective from Uganda: Millennium Development Goals and the Environment
Lessons to Apply to the Post-2015 Development Agenda Process
3 HEALTH GOALS AND INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Joining Health and Sustainable Development Goals Through Low-Carbon Policies
Metrics for Health, Development, and the Environment
4 LINKS AMONG SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH EQUITY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Global Environmental Change and Impacts on Human Health and Social Justice
Policies to Address Health Equity, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development
On-the-Ground Perspective on Addressing Health Equity and Sustainable Development
