The Lancet Commission on the European Health Union includes 23 Commissioners from 15 countries with expertise spanning health policy, health economics, health systems research, clinical practice, public health, behavioural science, social and structural determinants of health, data science, innovation research, global health governance, economics, and ethics. The Commissioners are supported by a Secretariat at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Till Bärnighausen
Co-Chair
Alexander von Humboldt University Professor & Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Maris Jesse
Co-Chair
Health Expert and Consultant
Tallinn, Estonia
Milena Vainieri
Co-Chair
Professor in Management and Director of the Management and Health Laboratory
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
Vania Coelho Wisdom
Senior Executive Editor
The Lancet Group, London, UK
Fiona Walsh
Chief of Staff/Coordinator
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
Heidelberg, Germany
Emma Tobin
Chief of Staff/Coordinator
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
Heidelberg, Germany
Vera Araújo-Soares
Director, Center for Prevention and Digital Health, Mannheim
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany
John-Arne Røttingen
Chief Executive Officer, Wellcome
London, UK
Rifat Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems; Director, The Health System Innovation Lab
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Niels Chavannes
Full Professor of General Practice
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, Netherlands
Stefan Listl
Director, Translational Health Economics
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Anant Jani
Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Tapani Piha
Special Advisor,
Pihanet Consulting, Fipra International, Helsinki, Finland
Ilona Kickbusch
Founder & Chair, International Advisory Board
Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
Siri Wiig
Professor & Center Director, SHARE-Center for Resilience in
Healthcare
University of Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway
Alice Borghini
Head of Digital Health and Telemedicine Office,
National Agency for Regional Health Services (AGENAS)
Rome, Italy
Iveta Nagyova
President, European Public Health Association, Utrecht, Netherlands
Senior Research Leader and Head of Department
Department of Social and Behavioral Medicine,
Pavol Jozef Safarik University
Kosice, Slovakia
Eldrid Herrington
Honorary Fellow, University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge, UK
Frederico Guanais
Deputy Head of Health Division, OECD
Paris, France
Vita Steina
Patient experience Expert, Riga East University Hospital and Paul’s Stradins University Hospital, Riga, Latvia
Advisor to Health Minister of Latvia
Caroline Costongs
Director, EuroHealthNet
Brussels, Belgium
Kremlin Wickramasinghe
Regional Advisor (Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity)
World Health Organization
Copenhagen, Denmark
Magda Rosenmöller
Associate Professor, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Christian Bugge Henrikson
Research Group Leader & Associate Professor
Climate & Food Security, Department of Plant and Environmental
Sciences
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ewout van Ginneken
Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies,
Brussels, Belgium
Anniek de Ruijter
Professor of Health Law & Policy, Director of Law for Health & Life
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands