Grand Convergence

The concept of the Grand Convergence in Global Health is an ambitious proposal launched by the Lancet Commission in 2014, will support us in facing the challenges offered by Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. The report “Global Health 2035: a world converging within a generation” made the case that we have the financial and technical capacities to close the health and longevity gap between low/lower-middle-income and high-income countries, reducing infectious, child, and maternal mortality rates to low levels globally to achieve a “Grand Convergence” (GC) in health by 2035. The Grand Convergence gives us a vision, an objective within our reach and a systematic framework to close the health gap between countries at different levels of development, thereby helping humanity to reach the SDGs as well. (Jamison, Dean T. et al. “Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation.”  The Lancet 382 (9908):1898-1955. 2013)

 

The Grand Convergence

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Source: (Jamison, Dean T. et al. “Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation.”  The Lancet 382 (9908):1898-1955. 2013)