The Sustainable Development Goals and Health Equity

Abstract

Invite the world to dream. That is what the United Nations (UN) did in 2012 through launching its unprecedented global consultation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the banner “the world we want.”1 Three years later, after extensive consultations and negotiations among multiple stakeholders, country leaders at the UN General Assembly in December 2015 agreed upon 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).