Tarja Halonen
Commission Chair
Former President of Finland; Member, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation; Alternate Co-Chair, High-Level Steering Group for Every Woman Every Child
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Commission Co-Chair
Founding Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health & The Institute for Global Health and Development, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan; Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, Toronto, ON, Canada; Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences & Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Peter Friberg
Commission Co-Chair
Co-Founder and Director, Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, Stockholm, Sweden; Professor, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Catherine Kyobutungi
Commission Co-Chair
Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Akshaya Neil Arya
Commissioner
Fellow, International Migration Research Centre and Balsillie School for International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada; Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Chair, PEGASUS Institute, Canada
Sara Causevic
Next Generation Commissioner
Research Assistant, Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, Stockholm, Sweden; Doctoral Student, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Carolyn Chisadza
Commissioner
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Senait Fisseha
Commissioner
Director of Global Programs, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Omaha, NE, USA; Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Siri Gloppen
Commissioner
Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Director of LawTransform, the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation, Bergen, Norway
Debarati Guha-Sapir
Commissioner
Senior Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins Centre for Humanitarian Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Steven J. Hoffman
Commissioner
Director of the Global Strategy Lab and Professor of Global Health, Law, and Political Science York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Institute of Population & Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ramya Kumar
Commissioner
Lecturer, Department of Community and Family Medicine, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Ana Langer
Commissioner
Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Director of the Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Minna Lyytikäinen
Next Generation Commissioner
Doctoral Student, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Ben Oppenheim
Commissioner
Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Ole Petter Ottersen
Commissioner
President, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Valerie Percival
Commissioner and Lead Researcher/Writer
Associate Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Fellow, Wilson Center, Washington DC, USA
Geeta Rao Gupta
Commissioner
Senior Advisor, 3D Program for Girls and Women; Senior Advisor, Co-Impact; Senior Fellow, United Nations Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
Sigrún Rawet
Commissioner
Deputy Director-General, Head of Global Agenda Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden
Elena Varavikova
Commissioner
Independent Researcher, MD, PhD, MPH, Moscow, Russia
Jeanette Vega
Commissioner
Chief Medical and Innovation Officer, Red de Salud UC-Christus, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Gavin Yamey
Commissioner
Director, Duke Center for Policy Impact in Global Health and Professor of the Practice of Global Health and Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, NC, USA
Fanghui Zhao
Commissioner
Director, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/ Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
Sara Fewer
Commissioner
Lancet-SIGHT Commission Manager, Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, Stockholm, Sweden
*Institutional affiliation is listed for identification purposes only.
