The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission

T2 - bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion

AU - Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission Study Group

AU - Bukhman, Gene

AU - Mocumbi, Ana O.

AU - Atun, Rifat

AU - Becker, Anne E.

AU - Bhutta, Zulfiqar

AU - Binagwaho, Agnes

AU - Clinton, Chelsea

AU - Coates, Matthew M.

AU - Dain, Katie

AU - Ezzati, Majid

AU - Gottlieb, Gary

AU - Gupta, Indrani

AU - Gupta, Neil

AU - Hyder, Adnan A.

AU - Jain, Yogesh

AU - Kruk, Margaret E.

AU - Makani, Julie

AU - Marx, Andrew

AU - Miranda, J. Jaime

AU - Norheim, Ole F.

AU - Nugent, Rachel

AU - Roy, Nobhojit

AU - Stefan, Cristina

AU - Wallis, Lee

AU - Mayosi, Bongani

AU - Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui

AU - Adler, Alma

AU - Amegashie, Fred

AU - Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary Kigasia

AU - Arwal, Said Habib

AU - Bassoff, Nicole

AU - Beste, Jason A.

AU - Boudreaux, Chantelle

AU - Byass, Peter

AU - Cadet, Jean Roland

AU - Dagnaw, Wubaye Walelgne

AU - Eagan, Arielle Wilder

AU - Feigl, Andrea

AU - Gathecha, Gladwell

AU - Haakenstad, Annie

AU - Haileamlak, Abraham Mitike

AU - Johansson, Kjell Arne

AU - Kamanda, Mamusu

AU - Karmacharya, Biraj

AU - Kasomekera, Noel

AU - Kintu, Alex

AU - Koirala, Bhagawan

AU - Kwan, Gene F.

AU - Larco, Nancy Charles

AU - Maongezi, Sarah

N1 - Funding Information: GB reports grants from the Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust, Stryker Johnston Foundation, Minneapolis Foundation, American Cancer Society, and Inter-American Development Bank; and non-financial support from Partners In Health, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Wellcome Trust, The Lancet, and World Bank, during the conduct of the study. GG was the Chief Executive Officer of Partners in Health from the beginning of the formation of the Commission through June, 2019, and was paid salary until July 30, 2019. GG is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School but receives no salary for this position. OFN's work was supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation. All other authors declare no competing interests. Funding Information: This Commission is dedicated to Bongani M Mayosi, a fellow Commissioner, who died on July 27, 2018. Prof Mayosi devoted his career to the cardiovascular diseases of poverty in Africa. He was our inspiration, colleague, friend, and mentor. We miss him profoundly and hope that this Commission contributes to the kind of positive change he wanted to see in the world. The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust provided major funding for the Commission research and meetings. All Commissioners were supported by their home institutions to participate in the project. Other organisations that provided financial or in-kind contributions for this Commission included Partners In Health, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery-Dubai, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Wellcome Trust, The Lancet, Stryker Johnston Foundation, American Cancer Society, Minneapolis Foundation, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Ethiopia NCDI Commission), World Bank (Knowledge Exchanges), and Inter-American Development Bank (Haiti NCDI Poverty Commission). The funding sources had no role in the design or content of this Commission. We thank the following research assistants at Harvard Medical School who contributed to literature reviews in support of the National NCDI Poverty Commissions: Mamka Anyona, Amiya Bhatia, Sarah M Frank, Gilberto Lopez, and Azhra Syed. We thank Jennifer Puccetti, Catherine M Player, Claire McDonell, Debra Keaney, Rebecca Grow, Carol Benoit, and London Hardy, who provided administrative support and guidance to the Commission Secretariat at Harvard Medical School. We thank Miriam Schneidman at the World Bank for her support and advice throughout the Commission process and for facilitating Knowledge Exchanges between the National NCDI Poverty Commissions and World Bank country-based staff. We thank David Murdock and Mehret Mandefro for their work on the Voices of NCDI Poverty project. We thank the following individuals who gave their perspective and advice on this project over the course of its development (all errors and omissions are solely the responsibility of the report authors): Paul E Farmer, S V Subramanian, Adam Wagstaff (deceased), Sabina Alkire, Michael Engelgau, Lincoln Chen, Mickey Chopra, Borwornsom Leerapan, Tracy Kidder, John Flanigan, Giuseppe Raviola, Stephanie Smith, Shekhar Saxena, Crick Lund, Vikram Patel, Ruma Rajbhandari, Kee Park, Mark Shrime, Jennifer Kreshak, Blake Alkire, John G Meara, Vatshalan Santhirpala, Bente Mikkelsen, T?a Collins, Cherian V Varghese, Ali H Mokdad, Alice K Bukhman, Daniel Vigo, Alex Beith, Corrado Cancedda, Sally Cowal, Robert Riviello, Lauren Eberly, Joia Mukherjee, Sheila Davis, Darius Leopold Fenelon, Egide Mpanumusingo, Joseph Dieleman, Chrisoph Kurowski, Timothy G Evans, Igor Glasunov, and David S Jones. We thank the individuals who participated in National NCDI Poverty Commissions, Groups, and Consortia at the time this report was produced in the following countries (Lancet Commissioners are also listed if they were involved in National Commissions. This list is not exhaustive.): Ahmad Jan Naeem, Bashir Noormal, Said Habib Arwal (co-chairs), Farhad Farewar, Humayoon Gardiwal, Khwaja Mir Islam Saeed, Ahmad Masoud, Mohammad Shafiq Shams, Abdullah Noorzai, and Sayed Attaullah Saeedzai (Afghanistan); Abraham Mitike Haileamlak, Solomon Tessema Memirie (co-chairs), Aklilu Azazh, Amsalu Bekele Binagdie, Alemayehu Bekele Mengesha, Wondu Bekele Woldemariam, Molla Gedefaw, Mahlet Kifle Habtemariam, Yoseph Mamo, Misrak Tarekegn Wondimagegn, Meiraf Tadesse Tolla, Taye Tolera Balcha, Wubaye Walelgne Dagnaw, and Dejuma Yadeata (Ethiopia); Jean Roland Cadet, Gene F Kwan, Nancy Charles Larco (co-chairs), Paul Adrien, Densa B?lony, Jacques Clerville, Jean Claude Desgranges, Ruth Damuse, Eddy Eustache, Pascale Hertelou Gassant, Benisa Joassaint, Stanley Juin, Ren? Domersant Junior, Ryan McBain, Julio Pedroza, and Shada Rouhani (Haiti); Indrani Gupta, Yogesh Jain, and Nobhojit Roy (co-chairs; India); Kibachio Joseph Muiruri Mwangi, Mary Kigasia Amuyunzu-Nyamongo (co-chairs), Zipporah Ali, Gladwell Gathecha, Abubakar A Hussein, Alfred Karagu, Dorcas Jepsongol Kiptui, Daniel Mwai, Joyce Nanjala Nato, Mary Nyangasi, Loise Nyanjau, Wilson Odero, Frank Odhiambo, and Samuel Oti (Kenya); Fred Amegashie, Jason A Beste (co-chairs), Dawn Cooper Barnes, Zoe C Y Taylor Doe, Mosoka P Fallah, Methodius George, William Karloweah, Victoria Katawera, Cate Oswald, and Maude Somah (Liberia); Jones Masiye, Emily B Wroe (co-chairs), Alemayehu Amberbir, Grace Banda, Sosten Chilumpha, John Chipolombwe, Mia Crampin, Katie Cundale, Luckson Dullie, Beth Dunbar, Noel Kasomekera, Ronald Manjomo, Leo Masamba, Colin Pfaff, Sam Phiri, and Michael Udedi (Malawi); Ana Olga Mocumbi, Humberto Munquingue (co-chairs), Carlos Arnaldo, Carla Carrilho, Matchecane Cossa, Humberto Albino Cossa, Ant?nio S Franco, Sarah M Frank, Sam Patel, Ant?nio Prista, and Patricia Silva (Mozambique); Bhagawan Koirala, Serendra Raj Upreti (co-chairs), Krishna K Aryal, Meghnath Dhimal, Arpana Kalaunee, SP Kalaunee, Biraj M. Karmacharya, Rajendra Koju, Suresh Mehata, Shiva Raj Mishra, Dinesh Neupane, Saroj Prasad Ojha, Achyut Raj Pandey, Bhaskar Raj Pant, Anant Raut, Dan K Schwarz, Deewakar Sharma, Abha Shrestha, Archana Shrestha, and Abhinav Vaidya (Nepal); Rose Gahire, Joseph Mucumbitsi, Clarisse Musanabaganwa, Gilles Fran?ois Ndayisaba, Gedeon Ngoga, Jean Pierre Nyemazi, Andr? Rusanganwa, Blaise Uhagaze, and Stella Matutina Umuhoza (Rwanda); Santigie Sesay (co-chair), Michael Alex Conteh, Chiyembekezo Kachimanga, Mutiva Kappia, Hawantu K Koroma, and John Makanga Ngorongo (Sierra Leone); Mary Mayige, Sarah Maongezi (co-chairs), Ayoub Magimba, Julie Makani, and Janneth Mghamba (Tanzania); Mary M Ajiko, Ann R Akiteng, Sarah Byakika, David Guwatudde, Dan Kajungu, Robert Kalyesubula, Nathan Kenya-Mugisha, Ivan Kimuli, Christopher Kwizera, Roy Mayega, Noleb Mugisha, Deogratias Munube, Martha Nadabba, David Ojut Okello, Emmy Okello, Jeremy Schwartz, William Lumu (Uganda); Patrick Banda, Patricia Mupeta Bobo, Samuel Bosomprah, Roma Chilengi, Fastone M Goma, Jane Matambo, Susan Citonje Msadabwe, John Musuku, Wilbroad Mutale, Earnest Muyunda, Peter Ngalama Songolo (Zambia); and Justice Mudavanhu (co-chair), Michelle Chishamiso Madzudzo, Venus Mushininga, Alvern Mutengerere, Lee Nkala, Anna Mary Nyakabau, Wenceslas Nyamayaro, Gerald Shambira, Janneke van Dijk, and Hajo Zeeb (Zimbabwe). We thank the 7 anonymous reviewers who generously gave us feedback on this report at an earlier stage. Finally, we thank Richard Horton, Elizabeth Zuccala, and Jennifer Sargent for encouraging this project and working with us as editors at The Lancet over the course of this Commission.

PY - 2020/10/3

Y1 - 2020/10/3

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090085496&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31907-3

DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31907-3

M3 - Review article

C2 - 32941823

AN - SCOPUS:85090085496

SN - 0140-6736

VL - 396

SP - 991

EP - 1044

JO - The Lancet

JF - The Lancet

IS - 10256

ER -