Global Health Governance Cannot Keep Relying on the Development‐Goals Model to Effectively Address Health Inequalities Around the World

ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are nearing their end in 2030, and it is highly unlikely that many of the SDGs would be met by the target date. This calls for the urgent need for an upgraded approach or a new strategy from the “development‐goals” model. This study, hence, strongly suggests a more country‐to‐country context‐specific approach that should cover the existing gaps in the “Development‐Goals” model. This new framework promises to be an upgrade from the SDGs by being equitably collaborative, enforcing the appropriate political will of participating member states, enforcing accountability and the “rights to development,” which is more practical than the individualistic human rights approach embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals framework. Determinants of global health inequalities were also discussed to give a proper context to the urgency of this issue. The country‐to‐country context‐specific model gives a more practical headway that could be adopted after the SDG era.