The United Nations is crucial to #GlobalHealth.
Celebrating #UNDay, look back at the 1945 @AMJPublicHealth "Summary of Actions Related to #PublicHealth During the @UN Conference in San Francisco"

Brazil & China delegations to 1945 San Francisco Conference were responsible for mainstreaming #health in the UN Charter & thereafter developing @WHO.
#UNDay #HistoryofMedicine

The @UN Charter is the foundation of modern #GlobalHealthGovernance, establishing:
* health cooperation through the #UNGA (art 13),
* international health law through #ECOSOC (art 55) &
* @WHO (art 57).
This #UNDay, the UN is more necessary than ever before to #GlobalHealth.

The @UN provides a foundation for international cooperation to advance #GlobalHealth. Yet, where the #COVID19 pandemic has challenged this international system as never before, we return to @AMJPublicHealth to reimagine #GlobalHealthGovernance. #UNDay2020 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305933