Table of Contents

1
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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"'To Save Humanity' is testimony to the complexity of global health politics, and of decision-making for health." -Future- Lancet Book Review