Sweden, June 20 -- Although 193 governments adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which warrant an integrated and multisectoral response to deliver on those promises, the progress has been lackadaisical in the past four years. A recent UN report has set an alarm on uneven progress on some SDGs and slipping on a few of the Global Goals in Asia Pacific region. Coordinated multisectoral response needs multidisciplinary action.

The new MACH

One of the ways to help prepare human resource for integrated response is training new aspirants for global health. The new MACH (Center For Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science) dedicated to a multidisciplinary approach starting from the bio-medical sciences but expanding to the other do...