[Viewpoint] Global health leap: an urgent call to action

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Source: The Lancet

Original: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)02514-0/fullt...

Published: 2026-01-20T23:30:01Z

The ongoing global health crisis presents an opportunity to transform the fragmented global health architecture. The article issues an urgent call for coordinated action - a global health leap. It calls for all stakeholders to unite around a common scope, clear goals and principles, and a process of transformational change. Over the past 50 years, major emergencies such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola and COVID-19 have led to the expansion of the global health architecture. These crises, along with optimism about the Millennium Development Goals and multilateralism, contributed to the expansion of the system.[2][3]