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The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is an ambitious, cross-sectoral endeavor to lay out the roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India. The Lancet is a leading international medical journal that has paved the way for medical reforms and global health discussions around the world. The Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System will be the first participatory report of its kind to be published by the journal, and the first Commission devoted to India.
A guiding principle for this Commission is that structural change towards UHC can only be attained through consultative and participatory engagement with the diverse sectors involved in health care and, most importantly, with India’s citizenry. The Lancet Commission has already brought together leaders from academia, the scientific community, civil society, and private healthcare to spearhead this effort. We now aim to go beyond the traditional boundaries of expertise to actively engage stakeholders whose voices have rarely been heard in previous reports: those who deliver healthcare and those who receive it. We hope you will join us in this initiative and follow developments on this webpage.
For more on our mission and guiding principles, please see the commentary below:
to view the Lancet commentary on Reimagining India’s Health System: a Lancet Citizens‘ Commission
Co-chairs
Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Executive Chairperson, Biocon Ltd.
Vikram Patel
Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Co-founder, Sangath
Gagandeep Kang
Clinician Scientist and Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College
Commissioners
Devi Shetty
Chairman, Narayana Hrudayalaya Limited
Nachiket Mor
Visiting Scientist, The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health
S V Subramanian
Professor of Population Health and Geography,Harvard University
Mirai Chatterjee
Director, Social Security Team, Self-Employed Women’s Association [SEWA]
Poonam Muttreja
Executive Director, Population Foundation of India
Sharad Sharma
Co-founder, iSPIRT Foundation
Yamini Aiyar
President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research
Bhushan Patwardhan
Distinguished Professor, Savitribai Phule Pune University;
Arnab Mukherji
Professor of Public Policy, Center for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore
Thelma Narayan
Director, Academics & Policy Action, SOCHARA
Sapna Desai
Associate, Population Council
Leila E Caleb Varkey
Independent Public Health Researcher
Vijay Chandru
Professor, Interdisciplinary Research, Indian Institute of Science
Atul Gupta
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Sandhya Venkateswaran
Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress
Sandra Albert
Director, Indian Institute of Public Health Shillong and Professor of Public Health
Preethi John
Associate Professor and Deputy Director, UCL Global Business School for Health; Faculty of Population Health Sciences, UCL, London, UK
Dr. Rakhal Gaitonde
Professor of Public Health, Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Insititute of Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
Indu Bhushan
Chairperson, Partnership for Impact (P4i) and former CEO of National Health Authority
Lancet Handling Editor
Pamela Das
Senior Executive Editor, The Lancet
Project Team
Shubhangi Bhadada
Mittal Institute Fellow, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
Anuska Kalita
Visiting Scientist and India Health System Specialist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kheya Melo Furtado
Associate Professor, Goa Institute of Management