iGHP Special Lecture Series [Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs & Dr. Sonia E. Sachs, Columbia
University]"The Future of Human Development in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"

iGHP Special Lecture Series showcases world-famous distinguished speakers to discuss global
health-related topics for a general audience.
Institute for Global Health Policy Research (iGHP), National Center for Global Health andMedicine (NCGM) is pleased and honored to announce the upcoming front-line lecture by Dr.
Sonia E. Sachs, Director of the Health Sector, Center for Sustainable Development, Earth
Institute, and Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor, Quetelet Professor ofSustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia
University.

Date & Time

Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 13:30-15:00

Topic"The Future of Human Development in the Era of Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)"

Venue

Institute for Global Health Policy Research, Bureau of International
Cooperation (Ground floor, Kenshuu Center Building), National
Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo

Accesshttp://kyokuhp.ncgm.go.jp/eng/aboutus/access.html

Language

English only (No Japanese interpretation will be provided)

Participation

Free of charge and open to general public. Advance registration isrequired.

Speakers

Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs is a pediatrician and public health specialist. She received a B.A.
from Harvard University, an M.D. from the University of Maryland Medical School, and an
MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. A pediatrician with a specialty in pediatricendocrinology, Sonia practiced medicine for over 20 years, 14 of which she spent at theHarvard University Health Services. In 2004 she joined the Earth Institute and became thehealth coordinator for the Millennium Villages Project overseeing all health related
interventions and research. The Millennium Villages Project is proof of concept that
extremely poor rural communities can reach the Millennium Development Goals given ascience-based, community led approach of integrated interventions that increase foodproduction and increase access to health care, education, water and infrastructure. The goal
is to show that such an integrated development approach is both scalable and sustainable.
Dr. Sonia Sachs’ bio can be found on the Earth Institutewebsite: http://csd.columbia.edu/author/ssachs/

Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader insustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist

whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 100 countries. He is the corecipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental
leadership. He has twice been named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential worldleaders. He was called by the New York Times, “probably the most important economist inthe world,” and by Time Magazine “the world’s best known economist.” A recent survey by
The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world’s three mostinfluential living economists of the past decade.
Professor Sachs served as the Director of the Earth Institute from 2002 to 2016. He wasappointed University Professor at Columbia University in 2016, and also serves as Quetelet
Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at
Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General António
Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals, and previously advised both UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon on the Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Development
Goals and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He isa Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis inLaxenburg, Austria. Sachs is currently Director of both the Center for SustainableDevelopment, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the auspicesof UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Sachs is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director ofthe Millennium Villages Project. Sachs is also one of the Secretary-General’s SDG
Advocates, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission forDevelopment. He has authored six books, including three New York Times bestsellers (*),
in the past decade years: The End of Poverty (2005*), Common Wealth: Economics for a
Crowded Planet (2008*), The Price of Civilization (2011*), To Move the World: JFK’s
Quest for Peace (2013) and The Age of Sustainable Development (2015) and the latest book,
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair & Sustainable (February 2017).
Professor Sachs is widely considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on economic
development, global macroeconomics, and the fight against poverty. His work on ending
poverty, overcoming macroeconomic instability, promoting economic growth, fighting
hunger and disease, and promoting sustainable environmental practices, has taken him to
more than 125 countries with more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more than
thirty years he has advised dozens of heads of state and governments on economic strategy,
in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He was among the outsideadvisors to Pope John Paul II on the encyclical Centesimus Annus and in recent years has

worked closely with the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy ofSocial Sciences on the issues of sustainable development.
Sachs was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. He received his B.A., summa cum laude,from Harvard College in 1976, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978 and1980 respectively. He joined the Harvard faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1980, and waspromoted to Associate Professor in 1982 and Full Professor in the fall of 1983, at the age of28.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ full bio can be found on his website: http://jeffsachs.org/about/Report on the iGHP Special Lecture Series[Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs & Dr. Sonia E. Sachs, Columbia University] "The Futureof Human Development in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"
On November 28, 2017, iGHP had an honor and privilege to invite Professor Jeffrey
D. Sachs and his wife Dr. Sonia E. Sachs from Columbia University to give us very
informative and inspiring lectures. Needless to say, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr.
Sonia Sachs are the world-renown leaders in the areas of sustainable development
and global health. Their dedication and exceptional achievements have been highlycelebrated worldwide. It was an opportunity hard to come by to listen to them at
iGHP. The topic of our special session was "The Future of Human Development inthe Era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)".
First, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs gave us an introduction to the 17 SDGs and explained
them from various perspectives. Today, people are surrounded by a number ofhardships and challenges on a global scale, but Prof. Sachs specifically touched on
the “Four Great Challenges” that exist in front of us. These include “physicalsurvival, social cohesion, economic inclusion, and political statecraft”. Before
concluding his lecture, Prof. Sachs gave us an invaluable piece of advice, especiallyfor those who are young and aspired to become global citizens, how humanityshould plan for its future. According to Prof. Sachs, the keys to successfulachievements of SDGs must include reduction of carbon energy transmission,building sustainable cities around the world, development of sustainable agriculture
and effective land use, quality and equitable health care and education for all, andrealization of innovative and inclusive societies.
Dr. Sonia Sachs is an experienced pediatrician as well as public health specialist.
Since 2004, she has been working at the Earth Institute as the health coordinator for
the Millennium Villages Project overseeing all health related interventions andresearch. Dr. Sachs’ presentation was focused on “Achieving SDG 3 in Low-income
Settings” particularly from maternal and child health (MCH) perspectives. According
to Dr. Sachs, each year 6.1million children under the age of five die from various
kinds of ill health conditions, and half a million women die during the periods ofpregnancy or childbirth. Dr. Sachs said many issues of MCH in resource-poor
settings are preventable as well as treatable, therefore, she emphasized theimportance of strengthening primary health care systems at local levels. Shepresented a successful example of national strategy practiced in Ghana, where themobile health system and scale-up of professionalized child health workers wereimplemented. In concluding her lecture, Dr. Sachs gave us a take-home message
that universal health coverage (UHC) is achievable as long as we could design anddevelop sound strategies and plan effective interventions, as well as utilize theappropriate technologies and tools including ICT by using the funds available.
Through these special lectures, we learned that it is important for all of us
stakeholders to be actively involved in the existing issues, and to encourage eachother to take collective actions for the betterment of global health and well-being of
the people across the world.