In 2015, world leaders committed to providing health services for all people by 2030. In 2023, we are at the halfway point to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals’ universal health coverage target.
More effort, from implementation to investment in health, is needed to meet this globally agreed goal, and to this end, our organizations have just launched the Health Impact Investment Platform. Today, we urge our global health partners to get behind it.
Consider some figures.
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About the authors
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected World Health Organization director-general for a five-year term by WHO member states in May 2017. In doing so, he was the first WHO director-general elected from among multiple candidates by the World Health Assembly, and was the first person from the WHO Africa region to head the world’s leading public health agency. Prior to his election as director-general, Tedros held many leadership positions in global health, including as chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, and co-chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Board. Following his studies, Tedros returned to Ethiopia to support the delivery of health services, first working as a field-level malariologist, before heading a regional health service and later serving in Ethiopia’s federal government for over a decade as minister of health and minister of foreign affairs.
Werner Hoyer
Werner Hoyer has been president of the European Investment Bank since 2012. Before that, he served for 24 years as a member of the German Bundestag. During this period, he held the position of minister of state at the Foreign Office on two separate occasions.
Muhammad Al Jasser
Muhammad Al Jasser, Ph.D., is the president of Islamic Development Bank. He has served as the minister of economy and planning and as governor and board chair of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (now the Saudi Central Bank – SAMA). He also served as an adviser at the Saudi Council of Ministers General Secretariat and as chairman of the General Authority for Competition.
Akinwumi Adesina
Akinwumi Adesina is the president of the African Development Bank Group. A globally recognized international development expert, Adesina is also the 2019 Forbes Africa Person of the Year and the 2017 World Food Prize recipient.
Ilan Goldfajn
Ilan Goldfajn is president of the Inter-American Development Bank since December 2022. Previously served as director of Western Hemisphere Department at the International Monetary Fund; was governor of the central bank of his native Brazil. An MIT-trained economist, his private sector experience includes key positions at Brazilian financial institutions.
