UNDP Administrator Stresses Linkages Between Health and Human
Development 31 January 2013: In a lecture titled “Empowered
Lives; Resilient Nations: Why Health Matters to Human
Development,” UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator
Helen Clark called for broad, innovative partnerships between
development and health practitioners to achieve global health
goals. In the lecture, which was delivered at the Harvard School
of Public Health, in Boston, US, Clark described health as key
to achieving all areas of development, noting that “disparities
in health outcomes tend to mirror inequalities and inequities”
in society more broadly. She highlighted linkages between health
and development, noting that the UN Conference on Sustainable
Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20) Outcome Document recognizes
health as “a precondition for and an outcome of all three
dimensions of sustainable development.” She provided an overview
of UNDP's efforts to support the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) on health, and emphasized how c