[Comment] What are the health research needs for the Sendai Framework?

There is an important opportunity to build coherence across different policy areas with the 2015 –16 adoption of four landmark UN agreements—the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030,1 the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, and the New Urban Agenda (Habitat III). Ensuring that health is at the heart of the Sendai Framework is crucial. The 2030 targets of the Sendai Framework call for substantial global reductions in disaster-related mortality, number of affected people, direct economic loss, and damage to critical infrastructure (panel).
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research