"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
The turn of the 21st century was an objective low point in the history of human health: AIDS was scourging Africa, millions of women died each year in child birth, and billions suffered under malnourishment and poverty. In response, the United Nations launched its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), an ambitious charter that since 2000 has measurably reduced the worldwide burdens of poverty, hunger, and disease.
With the MDGs set to expire in 2015, continued progress on these fronts is anything but certain. In addition to the persisting threats of the 20th century, globalization has sped the development of new threats--pandemics, climate change, chronic disease--that now threaten rich and poor countries equally.
"To Save Humanity" 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. This unparalleled collection will provide illuminating and thought-provoking reading for anyone invested in our collective future and well-being.

Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD, is Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan 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 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 J. Hoffman, BHSc, MA, JD, is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Strategy Lab at the University of Ottawa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health at Harvard University, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Part-Time) at McMaster University. He previously worked for the Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, World Health Organization and the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General.

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Harnessing Women's Agency
Fazle Hasan Abed
2
Democratizing International Development
Rebecca Affolder
3
Systems Thinking
Irene A. Agyepong
4
Leadership for Health Equity
Recep Akdag
5
Why Universal Health Coverage?
Sudhir Anand
6
Governance and Leadership for Health
Michelle Bachelet
7
Prioritizing Vulnerable Populations
Joyce Banda
8
The Internet Didn't Kill News
Julia Belluz
9
The Power of Vaccines
Seth Berkley
10
Improving Health by Addressing Poverty
Ela Bhatt
11
Biosocial Education for All
Agnes Binagwaho
12
City Leadership on Climate Change
Michael Bloomberg
13
Health is Not Alone
Albina du Boisrouvray
14
Education First, Health Will Follow
Irina Bokova
15
Pandemic's One-Two-Three Punch
Larry Brilliant
16
Equality is the Future
Gro Harlem Brundtland
17
Prioritizing Health in Politics
Felipe Calderón
18
Committing to Unbridled Collaboration
Ray Chambers
19
A New Philanthropy
Gerald L. Chan
20
Climate's Big Health Warning
Margaret Chan
21
Tackling Obesity and Overweight
Helen Clark
22
Preventing Premature Deaths
Bill Clinton
23
HIV Treatment, a Moral Duty
Paul Collier
24
The Power of Science
Francis S. Collins
25
Whose life is it?
Nigel Crisp
26
Security for Our Shared Home
Suraya Dalil
27
The Drugs Don't Work
Sally C. Davies
28
Vision 2020 - and Beyond
Mark Dybul
29
Achieving Social Equity
Carissa F. Etienne
30
Equity, Not Only Effectiveness
Paul Farmer
31
A Global CDC and FDA
Richard Feachem
32
A Universal Flu Vaccine
Harvey V. Fineberg
33
Accountability is One Big Idea
Colleen M. Flood
34
The Power of Knowledge
Julio Frenk
35
Better Information Will Save Lives
Thomas R. Frieden
36
Communicable Before Non-Communicable Diseases
Laurie Garrett
37
Human-Centered Design
Melinda Gates
38
A data revolution in health
Amanda Glassman
39
Non-Drug Interventions Also Work
Paul Glasziou
40
Investing in Health Outcomes
Tore Godal
41
Imagining Global Health with Justice
Lawrence O. Gostin
42
Putting People First
Teguest Guerma
43
The Big Health Data Future
Angel Gurría
44
Standing Up to Big Tobacco
Jane Halton
45
Safe Food and Medical Products
Margaret A. Hamburg
46
Climate Change is Here
Katharine Hayhoe
47
A Convenient Defense: Defining Affordability
David L. Heymann
48
A Science of Global Strategy
Steven J. Hoffman
49
Time for Renewal
Arianna Huffington
50
Reliable, Unbiased, Reproducible Evidence
John P.A. Ioannidis
51
Technology and Healthcare in Africa
Jay Ireland
52
Love is the Cure
Elton John
53
Multi-Sectoral Investments for Health
Mustapha Sidiki Kaloko
54
Secondary Schooling for Girls
Angélique Kidjo
55
Getting Health Delivery Right
Jim Yong Kim
56
Closing the Pain Divide
Felicia Knaul
57
Equity in Child Survival
Anthony Lake
58
Evidence-Informed Health Systems
John N. Lavis
59
Ignorance about Causes of Death
Alan Lopez
60
Five Pillars of Wisdom
Adetokunbo O. Lucas
61
Keeping the Promise to Children
Graça Machel
62
Embracing Community Innovation
Mathura Mahendren
63
Fairness and Health Equity
Michael Marmot
64
Medicines Must Be Safer
Malebona Precious Matsoso
65
From Hegemony to Partnership
Anne Mills
66
Health in the Global Economy
Suerie Moon
67
Disability and a Healthy Society
Chaeli Mycroft
68
Fusion Fund for Health
Sania Nishtar
69
Health and Not Health Care
Anders Nordström
70
Diet for a Healthy Future
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
71
Global Social Protection in Health
Gorik Ooms
72
Inequities in Adolescent's Health
Zulma Ortiz
73
Sharing Financial Responsibilities
Trygve Ottersen
74
We're All in this Together
Sean Penn
75
No Health without Rights
Navanethem Pillay
76
No Magic Bullet
Peter Piot
77
The Health Impact Fund
Thomas Pogge
78
Value-Based Health Care Delivery
Michael E. Porter
80
Universal Ideas / Local Institutions
Mariana Mota Prado
81
From Pulse to Planet
K. Srinath Reddy
82
A War on Tuberculosis
Zain Rizvi
83
Universal Health Coverage
Judith Rodin
84
Regulating Antimicrobials and Resistance
John-Arne Røttingen
85
Who Will Lead?
Simon Rushton
86
The Rwandan Consensus
Richard Sezibera
87
Ending Preventable Child Death
Rajiv Shah
88
Transformative Leadership
Kenji Shibuya
89
Global Health Citizenship
Michel Sidibé
90
Harmonizing Health
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka
91
Public Health 2.0
Jonas Gahr Støre
92
Tax Reform
David Stuckler
93
Investing in a Grand Convergence
Larry Summers
94
Health in a Multi-Polar World
Keizo Takemi
95
Midwives Save Women's Lives
Christy Turlington Burns
96
Smart Data
Kent Walker