Semmler Signs Declaration for Universal Health Coverage

Written By SCEPA

SCEPA Economist Willi Semmler signed the Economists' Declaration on Universal Health Coverage, calling on global policymakers to "prioritize universal health care coverage as an essential pillar of sustainable development."

Semmler, a professor of economics at The New School and director of SCEPA's Economics of Climate Change project, joined 266 economists from 44 countries in signing the declaration.

As the United Nations meets this week to adopt 17 sustainable development goals, the declaration urges the international body to prioritize a "pro-poor pathway to universal health coverage" and calls for increased domestic funding, donor country commitments, and political leadership to advance necessary reforms. The economists estimate the benefits of investing in basic health care will be 10 times greater than the costs. 

The declaration was convened by the Rockeller Foundation and led by Harvard Professor and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. 

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