As part of the lecture series “Global Health”, Dr Imme Scholz provided a keynote titled “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: An Innovative Reference for Global Health?” at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. The lecture given by Dr Scholz concluded the summer term series of the CAS. Previous topics were “Reconfiguring the HIV Pandemic: Power, Politics and Paradigms” (Prof. Lesley Doyal, Bristol), “The Origins of Global Health in the Aftermath of World War One” (Prof. Mark Harrison, Oxford) and “How to Manage Global Health and Are We Getting Better at It?” (Prof. Devi Sridhar, Edinburgh/CAS Fellow).