In October 2024, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health is releasing “Global Health 2050,” a new roadmap to achieving dramatic gains in global health by mid-century. This landmark report builds on and updates the commission’s original report, Global Health 2035, which was published in 2013, as well as a second report (CIH 2.0) published five years later to mark the 40th anniversary of the Alma Ata declaration of “health for all. DGHI’s Center for Policy Impact in Global Health (CPIGH) served as the secretariat of the commission and provided seven of the report’s 50 authors. 

This Think Global panel will provide a broad overview of the report, which examines the feasibility of every nation reducing its premature mortality by half by 2050. The report identifies opportunities for investment in health that can succeed despite multiple headwinds, including rising geopolitical tensions and increasingly manifest climate change. Several of the report’s authors, including experts from CPIGH and global partners, will joining the panel to discuss the implication of the report’s finding for low-, middle- and high-income countries.

SPEAKERS

Gavin Yamey MD, MPH, MA, (moderator) is the Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health based in DGHI. The Center is an innovative policy lab that addresses critical challenges in financing and delivering global health. He is the Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health at DGHI and a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy in the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy. Dr Yamey is Associate Director for Policy at DGHI. He is on the core faculty of the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy and affiliate faculty of Duke Science and Society. He leads the global health track in the Duke Global Policy (DGP) Program in Geneva. He is on the advisory board of the World Food Policy Center at Duke.

Simiao Chen, PhD, is an Associate Professor and a Head of Research Unit for Population Medicine and Public Health at Heidelberg Institute of Global Health at Heidelberg University in Germany, a Visiting Professor at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College in China and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. Her primary areas of research include population medicine, global health evidence-based decision-making, health system, health economics, and behavioral intervention. She is currently ranked among the top 0.8% of scientists worldwide (identified by Stanford/Elsevier), and her work has been awarded as Significant Progress of Medical Sciences in China in 2020, Ten Major Events in the Chinese Respiratory Field in 2023.

Damope Fawole, MS-GH, is an associate in research at the Center. He leads projects focused on quantitative health impact assessments and health policy. He joined the Center after earning a master’s in global health from the Duke Global Health Institute.

Omar Karlsson, PhD, is a visiting research fellow at DGHI and Duke Population Research Institute and a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Economic demography at Lund University in Sweden.

Osondu Ogbuoji, MBBS, MPH, ScD, is a health systems researcher with a background in medicine, public health, and health economics. His primary research interest is in making health systems work better for all, especially people living in poverty. His work includes the application of quantitative models to explore complex health system challenges such as persistent health inequities, child mortality, and inefficient/inequitable health financing in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Ogbuoji serves as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, the Lancet Commission on Preventing Viral Spillovers, and the Lancet Commission on Global Hearing Loss. He is also a member of the advisory board at the Africa Center for Disease Control’s Health Economics Programme and a member of the Economics and Financing workstream at the World Health Organization's Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health.

Justina O. Seyi-Olajide, MBBS, FWACS, FACS is a consultant Pediatric Surgeon at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria. She undertook undergraduate medical training at the Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria and completed surgical and pediatric surgical training at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, obtaining the Fellowship of West African College of Surgeons in Pediatric Surgery. She was awarded the Alinta Nwako prize for the best graduating pediatric surgical trainee in West Africa for that year. She has a passion for developing global health initiatives that address improving access to equitable and quality surgical care in LMICs, particularly for children. Justina was a key facilitator in the development of the National Surgical, Obstetrics, Anaesthesia and Nursing Plan (NSOANP) for Nigeria, the first national surgical plan to prioritize specific inclusion of children’s surgery and continues to advocate and work on implementation of the plan. 
 

This is a hybrid event with both in-person and remote attendance options. Attendance in person is encouraged. Lunch will be available.