A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter

The Last Chapter.

A grand convergence and a historic opportunity.

e38 www.thelancet.com Vol 382 December 7, 2013 The 1993 World Development Report (WDR) was a landmark publication: it put health squarely on the radar as a mainstream development opportunity. WDR 1993 made the important linkage between health gains and economic development, and it did so with arguments, metrics, and an audience that would have a substantial impact on how the world’s decision ma...

Grand convergence: a future sustainable development goal?

A Grand Convergence in Mortality is Possible: Comment on Global Health 2035

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. This article comments...

Gender, Sex and Sexuality Grand Challenge

Sex, gender, and sexuality have increasingly become the focus of academic research, within different disciplines as well as contributing to interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary studies. Gender and sexuality studies are identifiable expanding, interdisciplinary fields (Richardson and Robinson, 2015). This is a multifaceted area of research, which has increasingly become re...