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Suggested Citation:"GLOBAL HEALTH." National Academy of Medicine. 2022. Transforming Human Health: Celebrating 50 Years of Discovery and Progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26722.
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GLOBAL HEALTH

“The pandemic brings new awareness of the social and economic risks that arise from inadequate social protection systems, unequal access to health care, and other public services and high levels of inequality, including gender, race inequality, and all the other forms we witness in the world. It can therefore open the door to the transformational changes needed to build a New Social Contract ... fit for the challenges of the 21st century.”

—António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Suggested Citation:"GLOBAL HEALTH." National Academy of Medicine. 2022. Transforming Human Health: Celebrating 50 Years of Discovery and Progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26722.
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U.S. Leadership in Global Health

A Global Nonprofit Health Organization for Primary Care Health Technologies

Programs to Provide HIV/AIDS Relief

Eradication of Viral Scourges

Drawing on Traditional Medicine

Founding of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Envisioning a World Without Malaria

Using Metrics to Understand Global Health

Recommendations for Improved Global Health

Combating Infectious Disease Threats

Global Development

Identification of Essential Medicines

The Importance of Primary Health Care

Defining Sustainable Development

A New Emphasis on Maternal Mortality

Toward the Global Elimination of Tuberculosis

Committing to the Millennium Development Goals

Formation of the Center for Global Development

The Burden of Surgical Disease

Adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals

Documenting Today’s Most Pressing Global Health Issues

Health Security and Disease Surveillance

Quantifying the Health Effects of Disease and Injury

Sounding the Alarm on Infectious Disease Threats

Coordinating Responses to Global Outbreaks

Efforts to Stem Antimicrobial Resistance

Outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Working Together for Global Health Security

Zika Virus and Birth Defects

Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic

Human Rights

Resettling Refugees

World Conference on Human Rights

The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health

The Responsibility to Protect

Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities

Solidifying Indigenous Rights

Government Accountability for Human Rights

The Fight for Education

Climate Change and Human Rights

Suggested Citation:"GLOBAL HEALTH." National Academy of Medicine. 2022. Transforming Human Health: Celebrating 50 Years of Discovery and Progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26722.
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Suggested Citation:"GLOBAL HEALTH." National Academy of Medicine. 2022. Transforming Human Health: Celebrating 50 Years of Discovery and Progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26722.
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The past half-century has been an era of astonishing progress for biomedical science, health, and health care in the United States and worldwide. This volume, commissioned to mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM; formerly the Institute of Medicine [IOM]), tells the story of that progress across five major fields: biomedical science and technology, diseases and conditions, public health, U.S. health care, and global health. Since the NAM was founded in 1970, the nation and the world have seen multitudes of remarkable "firsts"—including the dawn of targeted gene therapies, the near eradication of polio, revolutionary treatments for cancers and cardiovascular disease, and many more. NAM members were the architects of many of these breakthroughs, alongside countless dedicated scientists, clinicians, educators, and public health leaders worldwide. The milestones chronicled in this volume are a testament to their remarkable work, which has saved and improved innumerable lives.

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