Forty years ago last month, thousands of delegates from 134 countries gathered in Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union, to adopt the Declaration of Alma-Ata. This landmark agreement committed the world to expanding health access, and the principles it enshrined in a mere three pages continue to have a profound effect on the field […]
Author Archives: Kabir Sheikh
Kabir Sheikh is chairman of Health Systems Global, a policy adviser at the Alliance for Health Policy & Systems Research, and former Joint director for research and policy at the Public Health Foundation of India.