People

The Commission is co-chaired by Sarah Hawkes (Head of Global Population Health at Monash University Malaysia and Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Global Health 50/50) and Elhadj As Sy (Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation and former Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies).

‍Alongside the two co-chairs, the Commission brings together 16 independent Commissioners with a wide range of expertise and experience – from people working with community health groups to those working on the global governance of the corporate determinants of health, through to human rights scholars and practitioners – and representing a range of global health topics and disciplines, geographies, and genders. Explore the expertise and inputs of the Commissioners here. The Commissioners are supported by a Secretariat.

Inputs into the Commission are far broader than the work of the co-chairs and Commissioners; the Commission has involved a public engagement strategy which privileged a diversity of voices and scholarship across a range of views in order to understand the complexity of defining and addressing gender, intersectionality, and health. Find out more here.

Who We Are

  • Meet the Commissioners
  • Meet the Secretariat
  • Meet the Contributors
  • Meet The Lancet team
  • Past team members

Co-Chairs

Sarah Hawkes (she/her/hers)
Malaysia
Elhadj As Sy (he/him/his)
Senegal

Commissioners

Gary Barker (he/him/his)
USA
Fran Baum (she/her/hers)
Australia
Ben Cislaghi (he/him/his)
UK
Jocalyn Clark
UK
Raewyn Connell (she/her/hers)
Australia
Morna Cornell (she/her/hers)
South Africa
Gary Darmstadt (he/him/his)
USA
Simone Diniz (she/her/hers)
Brazil
Sharon Friel (she/her/hers)
Australia
Sofia Gruskin (she/her/hers)
USA
Indrani Gupta (she/her/hers)
India
Sarah Hill (she/her/hers)
New Zealand
Renu Khanna (she/her/hers)
India
Jeni Klugman (she/her/hers)
USA
Vivian Lin
China
Khadija Moalla (she/her/hers)
Tunisia
Nina Schwalbe
USA
Ravi Verma (he/him/his)
India
Lynsey Robinson (she/her/hers)
UK
Aaron Koay (he/him/his)
UK
Amy Hsieh (she/her/hers)
USA
Angela Y. Chang (she/her/hers)
Denmark
Virginia Zarulli (she/her/hers)
Italy
Kent Buse
Malaysia
Erica Nelson (she/her/hers)
UK
Rebekka Park (she/her/hers)
Germany

Past Commissioner

Catherine Campbell (she/her/hers)
UK
Olena Hankivsky (she/her/hers)
Canada
Jessica Horn (she/her/hers)
UK
Emma Rhule (she/her/hers)
Malaysia

Past Co-Chair

Pascale Allotey (she/her/hers)
Switzerland

Past Secretariat

Tiffany Nassiri-Ansari (she/her/hers)
Malaysia
Anna Purdie (she/her/hers)
UK
Katia Smith (she/they/theirs)
UK

Past Contributors

Thepan Ganesh Ravindran (he/him/his)
Putri Widi Saraswati (she/they/theirs)
The Netherlands
Rifqah Abeeda Roomaney (she/her/hers)
South Africa
Melvine Obola Akinyi (she/her/hers)
Kenya
Kanksha Barman (she/her/hers)
India
Jessica Booysen (she/her/hers)
South Africa
Mackenzie Davie (she/her/hers)
Australia
Lucy Kombe (she/her/hers)
Kenya
Mawande Sanelise Lugongolo (he/him/his)
South Africa
Avantika Ranjan
India