The Lancet Commission on pollution and health.

Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa

Surgery has the potential to address one of the largest, neglected burdens of disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) has provided a blueprint for a systems approach to making safe emergency and elective surgery accessible and affordable and has started to enable African governments to develop n...

A Grand Convergence in Mortality is Possible: Comment on Global Health 2035

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. This article comments...

Africa's health and the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.

The Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute.

Surgery and global health: a Lancet Commission.

Delivery of surgical care—defi ned here as surgery, anaesthesia, nursing, and work by allied health pro fessionals, including managers—plays a fundamental part in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and palliation of a broad range of medical disorders (fi gure), and is a crucial component of a properly functioning health-care system and a prerequisite for universal health coverage. Today, an esti...

Local Research Catalyzes National Surgical Planning; Comment on “Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

In 2015 the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) argued that surgical care is important to national health systems along with the economic viability of countries. Gajewski and colleagues outlined how the Commission’s blueprint has been implemented in sub-Saharan Africa, including two funded research projects that were integrated into national surgical plans. Here...