Workshop examines Post-MDG Agenda for Global Health

Writing in the Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) "Development Channel" blog, Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at CFR, reports on a workshop on the post-2015 development agenda. The workshop, titled "Sustaining Healthy Development: A Workshop on the Post-MDGs Agenda for Global Health," was hosted by the council on November 19. Huang recaps comments made by a number of speakers at the event, including Robert Orr, U.N. assistant secretary-general for policy coordination and strategic planning; Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development; Nicola Crosta of the U.N. Capital Development Fund; and John Podesta, the U.S. representative to the U.N. High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. He writes, "It is encouraging to note that compared to the cooking-up of the MDGs, the setting of the post-2015 agenda will be an open and inclusive process involving both poor and rich states," and notes, "Pondering the post-2015 agenda also raises questions about the status of health" (11/26).