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This chapter describes why the concept of sustainable development is so important, why it is so important that we orient towards the three objectives of prosperity,…
Why Sustainable Development is Important:…
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In this chapter, Professor Sachs discusses the second key transformation, health and wellbeing. The many dimensions of achieving this transformation are considered,…
Health and Wellbeing
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In this chapter, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gives an overview of health, education, and labor rights, tying each one to the overall goals of sustainable development. This…
The Rights to Health, Education, and Decent Work
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In this conversation, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Dr. Robert Lustig discuss the relationship between nutrition and non-communicable disease, the dangers of processed…
Conversation with Robert Lustig, Metabolical
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Disasters of various kinds, including hurricanes, monsoons, earthquakes, and landslides, poses a public health emergency. In this video, Professor K. Srinath Reddy…
Disasters and Public Health
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An introduction to the course The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This course is about children in the context of the…
Introduction: Early Childhood Development for…
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Societal progress is about improvements in the well-being of people and households. Assessing such progress requires looking not only at the functioning of the economic…
Measures of well-being
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How to we measure health status? This video addresses the different ways to address measuring health from the lenses of physical, mental, and social well-being. This…
Measuring Health Status
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How does global public health change throughout time? In this video, Professor K. Srinath Reddy addresses this question, looking at how we predict the changes in public…
Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions
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This is the first lecture in the course "The Covid-19 Pandemic: Virology, Public Health, and Economics," taught by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University. …
The history of epidemics and their impact on…
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Economics relates to health in that it relates to development. In this video, Professor K. Srinath Reddy addresses the economics of global public health and economic…
Economics to Equity in Health
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Early care and education is an important sector for young children because it is where children spend the most time aside from their family worldwide, and it corresponds…
Early Care and Education Programs
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This chapter is about socio-emotional development, about when the children develop the important skills for cooperation and contribution in terms of pro-social and moral…
Socio-emotional Development from 3 to 8
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Enroll in The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood Development for Sustainable Development. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
The Best Start in Life: Early Childhood…
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From Carol Graham, one of the first economists to start thinking about happiness and wellbeing as part of science, learn about happiness and its complex connection to…
Introducing well-being
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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and two of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing, Lord Richard Layard and Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve to discuss…
Conversation with Richard Layard and Jan-Emmanuel…
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