A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission

Helen Clark¹, Awa Marie Coll-Seck², Anshu Banerjee³, Stefan Peterson⁴, Sarah L Dalglish⁵, Shanthi Ameratunga⁶, Dina Balabanova⁷, Maharaj Kishan Bhan⁸, Zulfiqar A Bhutta⁹, John Borrazzo¹⁰, Mariam Claeson¹⁰, Tanya Doherty¹¹, Fadi El-Jardali¹², Asha S George¹³, Angela Gichaga¹⁴, Lu Gram¹⁵, David B Hipgrave⁴, Aku Kwamie¹⁶, Qingyue Meng¹⁷, Raúl Mercer¹⁸, Sunita Narain¹⁹, Jesca Nsungwa-Sabiiti²⁰, Adesola O Olumide²¹, David Osrin¹⁵, Timothy Powell-Jackson⁷, Kumanan Rasanathan²², Imran Rasul²³, Papaarangi Reid⁶, Jennifer Requejo²⁴, Sarah S Rohde²⁵, Nigel Rollins³, Magali Romedenne²⁶, Harshpal Singh Sachdev²⁷, Rana Saleh²⁸, Yusra R Shawar⁵, Jeremy Shiffman⁵, Jonathon Simon³, Peter D Sly²⁹, Karin Stenberg³⁰, Mark Tomlinson³¹, Rajani R Ved³², Anthony Costello³³

Affiliations

¹ The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand; Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
² Senegal Presidency, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Department of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ UNICEF Headquarters, Programme Division, Health Section, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁷ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ Health Systems Transformation Platform, Tata Trusts, Mumbai, India.
⁹ Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, OT, Canada; Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
¹⁰ Global Financing Facility, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
¹¹ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹² Department of Health Management and Policy, Beirut, Lebanon; Knowledge to Policy Center American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
¹³ School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
¹⁴ Financing Alliance for Health, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁵ Institute for Global Health, London, UK.
¹⁶ Health Policy and Systems Research Consultant, Accra, Ghana.
¹⁷ China Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
¹⁸ Program of Social Sciences and Health, Latin American School of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁹ Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India.
²⁰ Department of Maternal and Child Health, Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
²¹ Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
²² Department of Health Systems, WHO, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
²³ Department of Economics, London, UK.
²⁴ Division of Data, Analysis, Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, New York, USA.
²⁵ Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
²⁶ West and Central Regional Office, UNICEF, Dakar, Senegal.
²⁷ Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India.
²⁸ Knowledge to Policy Center American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
²⁹ Children's Health and Environment Program, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
³⁰ Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
³¹ Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
³² National Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi, India.
³³ University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: anthony.costello@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 32085821
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32540-1

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A future for the world's children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission

Helen Clark et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Feb 22;395(10224):605-658.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32540-1. Epub 2020 Feb 19.

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Affiliations

¹ The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand; Partnership for Maternal Newborn & Child Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
² Senegal Presidency, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Department of Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ UNICEF Headquarters, Programme Division, Health Section, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁷ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ Health Systems Transformation Platform, Tata Trusts, Mumbai, India.
⁹ Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, OT, Canada; Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
¹⁰ Global Financing Facility, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
¹¹ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹² Department of Health Management and Policy, Beirut, Lebanon; Knowledge to Policy Center American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
¹³ School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa.
¹⁴ Financing Alliance for Health, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁵ Institute for Global Health, London, UK.
¹⁶ Health Policy and Systems Research Consultant, Accra, Ghana.
¹⁷ China Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China.
¹⁸ Program of Social Sciences and Health, Latin American School of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹⁹ Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, India.
²⁰ Department of Maternal and Child Health, Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda.
²¹ Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
²² Department of Health Systems, WHO, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
²³ Department of Economics, London, UK.
²⁴ Division of Data, Analysis, Planning and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, New York, USA.
²⁵ Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
²⁶ West and Central Regional Office, UNICEF, Dakar, Senegal.
²⁷ Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India.
²⁸ Knowledge to Policy Center American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
²⁹ Children's Health and Environment Program, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
³⁰ Department of Health Systems Governance and Financing, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
³¹ Institute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
³² National Health Systems Resource Centre, New Delhi, India.
³³ University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: anthony.costello@ucl.ac.uk.

PMID: 32085821
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32540-1

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