The Steering Committee
Dr. Rifat Atun
Steering Committee Member
Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University and Director of the Global Health Systems Cluster at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was previously Director of Strategic Performance and Evaluation Cluster at the Global Fund.
Dr. Kristen DeStigter
Steering Committee Member
Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and Radiology Health Service Chief for the University of Vermont Health Network. She is also President and co-Founder of Imaging the World.
Dr. John Flanigan
Steering Committee Member
Senior Advisor for Non-Communicable Diseases at the Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, USA.
Dr. Susan Horton
Deputy Chair
University Research Professor in Global Health Economics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Dr. Shahin Sayed
Steering Committee Member
Associate Professor and Section Head, Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University, Nairobi. Also section head at COPECSA (College of Pathologists of East, Central, and South Africa)
Dr. Michael Wilson
Deputy Chair
Professor and Vice-chair, Department of Pathology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, and Director, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Services, Denver Health, Denver, Colorado
Lancet Commission on Diagnostics Geneva Representative
Alexandra Heumber Perry
Alexandra specializes over the past 20 years in patient issues in global health and is based in Geneva. She has a Master’s in health product law, an executive diploma in global health diplomacy from the Geneva Graduate Institute and has previously worked with Medicines for Europe and MSF in Brussels, and Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), UICC and currently supporting World Federation of Hemophilia, World Obesity with their global advocacy. She has experience in leading a successful WHO resolution process for DNDi, also the recent adoption process of the Global Action Plan on neurological disorders. She can be reached at dxcommission@icloud.com.
The Co-authors
Affiliations as of October 2021, when Report was published.
Dr. Pierrick Adam
Co-author
Pierrick Adam is Head of the Infectious Diseases Programs Control Unit in the Ministry of Health, French Polynesia. Previously he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University working on essential diagnostics and Universal Health Coverage. During his medical training he undertook residencies at Institut Pasteur in the Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, and at santé publique France in the Alert and Crisis Coordinating Unit and the Healthcare Emergencies Response and Preparedness Unit.
Ms. Bertha Aguilar
Commissioner
A cancer survivor and patient advocate. She collaborates as a patient advocate with MILC foundation in Mexico (Médicos e Investigadores en la Lucha contra el Cáncer de mama)
Dr. Savvas Andronikou
Commissioner
Vice-Chair of Clinical Research and Direction of Section on Pulmonary Imaging, Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and previously Professor at the University of Bristol and the University of Cape Town.
Dr. Catharina Boehme
Commissioner
Current Chef de Cabinet at WHO. Previous Chief Executive Officer of FIND, an international non-profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland that supports the development and delivery of much-needed diagnostic tests
Dr. William Cherniak
Co-author
William Cherniak is an Emergency physician with training in family medicine and global public health. He is a cofounder and board chair of Bridge to Health Medical and Dental, a co-founder, board chair and CEO of Bridge to Health USA, and a co-founder and CEO of Rocket Doctor. He is an Adjunct Professor with Northwestern University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Annie Cheung
Commissioner
Professor of Anatomical Molecular Pathology at the University of Hong Kong, Chief of Service of Pathology at HKU-Shenzen Hospital, and President of the Hong Kong College of Pathology
Dr. Bernice Dahn
Commissioner
Vice president for health sciences at the University of Liberia (UL). She previously served as the Minister of Health for the Republic of Liberia, including the period of the Ebola outbreak. She previously served as a Reproductive Health Advisor to UNFPA.
Dr. Lluis Donoso
Commissioner
Director of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Barcelona; President of the International Society of Radiology and Past president of European Society of Radiology
Dr. Tania Douglas
Commissioner
Was Professor of Biomedical Engineering, South African Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering & Innovation, and Director of the Medical imaging Research Unit at the University of Cape Town (late).
Dr. Patricia Garcia
Commissioner
Professor and former Dean of the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima-Peru, and former Chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health (NIH). She previously served as the Minister of Health in Peru from 2016-2017.
Dr. Sarwat Hussain
Commissioner
Professor of Radiology at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Formerly a professor at Aga Khan University Pakistan, and at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Founder of the Journal of Global Radiology
Dr. Hari Iyer
Co-author
Dr. Iyer is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow applying geospatial methods to identify geographic drivers of cancer disparities in the US and globally. He has a decade of experience leading and supporting health systems evaluations in sub-Saharan Africa in the academic and non-profit sectors.
Dr. Mikashmi Kohli
Co-author
Dr. Mikashmi Kohli completed her PhD in Molecular Medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Having completed a postdoctoral fellowship and is currently doing an MSc in epidemiology at McGill University. She worked in India on the diagnosis of TB, especially extrapulmonary TB. She has also been working with the Cochrane Systematic Review team on diagnostic accuracy of molecular tests in TB.
Dr. Alain Labrique
Commissioner
Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; Director of Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative
Dr. Lai-Meng Looi
Commissioner
Malaysia’s Inaugural Distinguished Professor; Former President of World Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Dr. John Meara
Commissioner
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Field of Global Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Harvard University, and Chief of Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. John Nkengasong
Commissioner
Director, African Centres for Disease Control and founding Chair, Board of Directors of African Society for Laboratory Medicine.
Dr. Madhukar Pai
Commissioner
Canada Research Chair in Transitional Epidemiology and Global Health and Director of McGill Global Health Programs, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Dr. Kara-Lee Pool
Co-author
Kara-Lee Pool, MD is a Breast and Pediatric Radiologist in Los Angeles and is an Operational and Management Team leader for RAD-AID International and an International Outreach Committee Member for the Society of Breast Imaging. Her international work includes producing an award-winning documentary titled “Mountains of Hope” about the challenges of HIV in Lesotho as well as innovatiions in radiology techniques for breast cancer in South Africa, extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Malawi and ZIKA in Brazil.
Dr. Kaushik Ramaiya
Commissioner
Consultant Physician and Chief Executive Officer at Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Hon. Lecturer at the Department of Internal Medicine at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) and Hon Professor of Medicine & Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), United Kingdom. He is also the Hon General Secretary of the Tanzania Diabetes Association (TDA) and East African NCD Alliance
Dr. Lee Frederick Schroeder
Co-author
Lee Schroeder is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan where he is Director of Point-of-Care Testing and Associate Director of Chemical Pathology. His academic focus is at the interface of clinical informatics and health services research, using decision analytic approaches to model and improve the impact of laboratory medicine. This has included research involving laboratory capacity and quality improvement of sub-Saharan African laboratories, empirical work on laboratory capabilities in Ghana and Uganda, and work related to the WHO Essential Diagnostics List.
Devanshi Shah
Co-author
Devanshi Shah is a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology candidate at the University of Toronto. She previously completed her Bachelors of Science at the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Richard Sullivan
Commissioner
Professor of Cancer and Global Health, Kings College London, Director, Institute of Cancer Policy and Co-Director, Kings Conflict and Health Research Group
Dr. Bien Soo Tan
Commissioner
Senior Consultant at the Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Singapore General Hospital. He was the inaugural Academic Chair of the Radiological Sciences Academic Clinical Programme at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Centre and immediate past Chair of the Division of Radiological Sciences at Singapore General Hospital.
Dr. Kamini Walia
Commissioner
Senior Scientist, Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases Division, Indian Council of Medical Research. She previously spent 2 years in PATH, as Director of Research and Development.
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