Economic and Social Council Holds Political Forum on Sustainable Development

Magda Robalo (centre), Co-chair UHC2030 and co-founder of the Institute for Global Health and Development of Guinea-Bissau, speaks during the 2nd meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (14-23 July). The focus of this meeting was Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 and interlinkages with other SDGs – Healthy lives. At left is Ibrahim Abubakar, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of the University College London, and at right is Lok Bahadur Thapa, Vice-President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations.