Health equity advocates were buzzing in Davos at the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting as nearly forty organizations signed the Global Health Equity Network’s Zero Health Gaps Pledge. The Pledge aims to address and combat the longtime health disparities among underserved populations by marshaling corporate, government, non-profit, and other C-suite executives to embed health equity initiatives across their organizations.
Proponents of health equity are touting the Zero Health Gaps Pledge as one of the more recent landmark developments that has the potential to impact health equity on a size and scale the could be materially transformative. The pledge includes 10 key commitments all signatories have made to entrenching health equity principles across their organizations’ operations, personnel and missions.
The Global Health Equity Network, a group that convenes public and private stakeholders to work towards a “zero health gaps” objective, is driving the pledge forward with a mission consistent with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The pledge and the broader initiatives of the Global Health Equity Network are components of the World Economic Forum’s efforts to take health equity to an entirely new level in terms of the development and embracement of improved tools, more diverse pathways and effectives partnerships to advance best practices on actions, investments and measurement techniques that are aimed to reduce health disparities across populations.
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