The Commission seeks “to help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic.” A key aim is to enhance “awareness and adoption worldwide of successful strategies to suppress transmission.” It also seeks to “meet the dire and pressing needs of vulnerable groups, to prevent the public health emergency from turning into a financial emergency for governments and businesses, to strengthen the efficacy of critical multilateral institutions on the front lines of responding to the pandemic, and “to build the world back better, with resilient health systems, global institutions, and economies that are being transformed on the basis of sustainable and inclusive development.” The Commissioners are leaders in health science and delivery, business, politics, and finance from across the world.
Publications:
Highlights:
- Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change (Nov 28, 2018), tracking 41 indicators across five domains and advocating a “global transformation for public health,”
- Food in the Anthropocene, the EAT-Lancet Commission report on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (Jan 16, 2019, 47p), on the urgent need for a global transformation of the food system.
- Enhancing Global Cooperation to End the COVID-19 Pandemic: Statement of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission (Feb 2021) An overview statement of the Commission
