Behind these gentle words are 19 very ambitious targets, more than any other goal, encompassing finance, technology, trade, and capacity-building, as well as a number of other policies and issues on which countries more often compete than "partner".
The goals encompass the traditional preoccupations of the donor world: poverty eradication, governance and peace.
Speaking last month, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said the goals encompassed "a universal, transformative and integrated agenda that heralds an historic turning point for our world".
As such, it is one of the most ambitious working examples of social protection on a nationwide scale in the developing world: its beneficiaries are in the tens of millions and its goals encompass both poverty reduction and infrastructure building.
None of the goals encompassed by translational medicine, however, are unique to the discipline, since most biomedical scientists and practitioners firmly believe that their work is to some extent relevant to the cure of disease.
We had three overarching goals, encompassing the entire series of steps that would be performed by a practicing systematist or population geneticist.
The goals encompass improving maternal health, reducing poverty and gender inequality, and combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
A goal that encompasses both more children attending school and receiving a better quality education.
However, to our knowledge, there are scarce reports regarding applications developed to meet this goal and encompass the complete medical curriculum.
