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The Center for Health Security began as the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (CCBS) in 1998 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. [5] D. A. Henderson served as the founding director. [6] At that time, the center was the first and only academic center focused on biosecurity policy and practice. [citation ...
McGovern has worked at Columbia University since the early 2000s. In 2004, she was an associate professor at the Mailman School of Public Health. [2] In 2018, she began serving as director of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health's Program on Global Health Justice and Governance.
This List of SDG targets and indicators provides a complete overview of all the targets and indicators for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. [1][2] The global indicator framework for Sustainable Development Goals was developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) and agreed upon at the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission held in March 2017.
Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3 or Global Goal 3), regarding "Good Health and Well-being", is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015. The official wording is: "To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages . " [ 1 ] The targets of SDG 3 focus on various aspects of healthy ...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet" [1] [2] – while tackling climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests.
Sustainable quality improvement looks to take a broader view of the measurable effect, considering social and environmental outcomes alongside financial ones. This is also known as the Triple Bottom Line. This principle was applied to the sustainable value of healthcare [18] by including sustainability as a domain of quality in healthcare. [18]
Empowers key stakeholders to make decisions that will protect for our health and the health of the environment. In May 2018, it launched the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE), [2] directed by former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. [3] The center is now directed by Dr. Aaron Bernstein. [4] [5]
The creation of the WHO in 1948 recognised the severity of epidemiological events in the wake of the 1918 Spanish Influenza. [2] During WWII, the security implications of major epidemic events, including malaria, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid, and typhus, demonstrated the need to establish an institution to mitigate threats to human life and the subsequent economic impacts of such events. [2]