Announcing The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health

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...

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

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health.

Philip J Landrigan, Richard Fuller, Nereus J R Acosta, Olusoji Adeyi, Robert Arnold, Niladri (Nil) Basu, Abdoulaye Bibi Baldé, Roberto Bertollini, Stephan Bose-O’Reilly, Jo Ivey Boufford, Patrick N Breysse, Thomas Chiles, Chulabhorn Mahidol, Awa M Coll-Seck, Maureen L Cropper, Julius Fobil, Valentin Fuster, Michael Greenstone, Andy Haines, David Hanrahan, David Hunter, Mukesh Khare, Alan Krupni...

Polycentrism in Global Health Governance Scholarship; Comment on “Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face”

Drawing on an in-depth analysis of eight global health networks, a recent essay in this journal argued that global health networks face four challenges to their effectiveness: problem definition, positioning, coalition-building, and governance. While sharing the argument of the essay concerned, in this commentary, we argue that these analytical concepts can be used to explicate a concept that h...

Managing the health effects of climate change: Lancet and University College London Institute for Global Health Commission.

www.thelancet.com Vol 373 May 16, 2009 1693 Anthony Costello, Mustafa Abbas, Adriana Allen, Sarah Ball, Sarah Bell, Richard Bellamy, Sharon Friel, Nora Groce, Anne Johnson, Maria Kett, Maria Lee, Caren Levy, Mark Maslin, David McCoy, Bill McGuire, Hugh Montgomery, David Napier, Christina Pagel, Jinesh Patel, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Nanneke Redclift, Hannah Rees, Daniel Rogger, Joanne S...