Global health security and universal health coverage: from fragmented aspirations to ambitious commitments

As leaders of the G7 meet in Japan in May, and representatives from 194 countries convene at the World Health Assembly in Geneva directly after, we are likely to see communiqués and resolution texts reiterating long standing commitments to advance global health security and universal health coverage.Building on cross cutting health targets that all United Nations member states adopted through the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015,1 these commitments are more important than ever, as the covid-19 pandemic has shown. Lack of progress on global health security, defined as “the capacities [needed] to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats,”2 continues to leave all countries vulnerable to public health emergencies. Lack of progress on universal health coverage, which ensures “all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship,”3 continues to leave millions of people globally…
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