Commission Chairs

  • Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng

    UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and Medical Doctor

  • Dr. Ngozi Erondu

    Dr. Ngozi Erondu

    Senior Scholar, O’Neill Institute; Technical Director, Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE)

This Commission is the first Lancet Commission to be co-chaired by two Black women, Tlaleng Mofokeng and Ngozi Erondu, and its Commissioners represent a multitude of communities, ethnic and racialised groups, and disciplines; their track record of trust and investment in communities is essential to the application of non-extractive methods to engage afflicted communities as co-shapers of this research and ultimately our findings.

Commissioners

  • Tendayi Achiume

    Tendayi Achiume

    Former UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Pretoria

  • Seye Abimbola

    Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Sydney; Prince Claus Chair, Development and Equity, Utrecht University

  • Catherine Burns

    Associate Professor of History, University of Johannesburg

  • Rokhaya Diallo

    Journalist, writer and award winning filmmaker, RTL, France

  • Vuyiseka Dubula

    Centre for Civil Society, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

  • Kevin Fenton

    Regional Public Health Director, London and President, UK Faculty of Public Health

  • Walter Flores

    Founder, Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en Sistemas de Salud, Guatemala & Research Professor, Accountability Research Center

  • Renzo Guinto

    Associate Professor of Global and Planetary Health, National University of Singapore

  • Camara Jones

    Senior Fellow, Morehouse School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

  • Margareta (Magda) Matache

    Co-founder and Director, Roma Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University

  • Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane

    South African Lawyer; Social Justice Activist

  • Loyce Pace

    Former Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  • Kumanan Rasanathan

    Executive Director, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research

  • Osama Tanous

    Pediatrician, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University;  Co-director, Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University

  • Alissa Trotz

    Professor of Caribbean studies, University of Toronto; Faculty Affiliate, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill

  • Attiya Waris

    UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights; Professor, University of Nairobi

  • Chelsea Watego

    Founding Board Member, Inala Wangarra; Professor of Indigenous Health, Queensland University of Technology

  • Chamindra Weerawardhana

    Founder and Trustee, Consortium for Intersectional Justice

  • Suraj Yengde

    Author of “Caste A Global Story” (2025), “Caste Matters” (2019), Transnational Dalit rights activist, Assistant Professor of History & Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Secretariat

The Secretariat for the Commission is housed at the Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

at Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute and School of Health.

  • Matthew M. Kavanagh

    Matthew M. Kavanagh

    Director, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

  • Sarah Bosha

    Director of Legal Research and Human Rights, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

  • Alice Mutebi Kayongo

    Senior Associate, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

  • Vyoma Dhar Sharma

    Fellow, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics

  • Schadrac Agbla

    Tenure Track Fellow, Health Data Science, University of Liverpool

  • Estella Muro

    Program Coordinator, Center for Global Health Policy & Politics