Lancet Commissioners
The Lancet Commission on Obesity is chaired by Boyd Swinburn and Bill Dietz, and made up of an additional 25 commisioners. Details of these can be found below.
Additionally, the secreteriat is provided by:
- Sarah Baldauf - Senior Director of Communications, Outreach and Engagement - Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University
- Hannah Brinsden - Head of Advocacy & Public Affairs - World Obesity Federation
- Jumi Aluko - Student Staff Assistant - George Washington University
Lancet Commissioner
Vincent Atkins
- LDC Trade Policy/Technical Advisor
- CARICOM Office of Trade Negotiations
- Barbados
Lancet Commissioner
Olivier de Schutter
- Professor
- Center for Philosophy of Law, Université catholique de Louvain
- Belgium
Lancet Commissioner
Majid Ezzati
- Chair in Global Environmental Health
- Imperial College London
- United Kingdom
Lancet Commissioner
Sharon Friel
- Director Professor of Health Equity
- Regulatory Institutions Network Australian National University
- Australia
Lancet Commissioner
Shifalika Goenka
- Associate Professor
- Public Health Institute of India
- India
Lancet Commissioner
Ross Hammond
- Director
- Center on Social Dynamics and Policy, The Brookings Institution
- USA
Lancet Commissioner
Gerard Hastings
- Emeritus Professor
- Institute for Social Marketing, University of Stirling, The Institute for Social Marketing
- United Kingdom
Lancet Commissioner
Corinna Hawkes
- Professor of Food Policy
- City University London
- United Kingdom
Lancet Commissioner
Peter Hovmand
- Director
- Social System Design Lab, Washington University in St. Louis
- USA
Lancet Commissioner
Harriet Kuhnlein
- Founding Director
- Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE), McGill University
- Canada
Lancet Commissioner
Shiriki Kumanyika
- Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
- University of Pennsylvania
- USA
Lancet Commissioner
Victor Matsudo
- Scientific Director
- Center of Studies from the Physical Fitness, Research Laboratory of Sao Caetano do Sul
- Brazil
Lancet Commissioner
Patricia Nece
- Patient advocate (profession: attorney)
- Obesity Action Coalition
- USA
Lancet Commissioner
An Pan
- Professor, Assistant Dean
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- China
Lancet Commissioner
David Patterson
- Senior Legal Expert
- International Development Law Organization
- Netherlands
Lancet Commissioner
Warren Smit
- Manager
- CityLab Programme at the African Centre for Cities (ACC), University of Cape Town
- South Africa
Lancet Commissioner
Bagher Larijani
- Professor of Endocrinology
- Founding Director-General and Chief Scientific Officer
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute of Tehran University of Medical Science (TUMS)
- Iran
Lancet Commissioner
Mario Herrero
- Chief Research Scientist and Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader
- CSIRO Agriculture
- Australia
Lancet Commissioner
Steve Allender
- Professor of Public Health
- Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University, Melbourne
- Australia
Want to find out more about Lancet Fellows?
You can find out more information about Lancet Fellows past and present using the link below.
Lancet Fellows