Gavin Yamey

Commissioner, Lancet Commission on Investing in Health

Biography

Gavin Yamey MD, MPH, MA is the Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health based in DGHI. Dr. Yamey has served as a commissioner on three previous Lancet commissions: the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health, and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. He is currently a commissioner on the Lancet-SIGHT Commission on Peaceful Societies Through Health and Gender Equality, and he chairs the international advisory committee to the Lancet Commission on Global Hearing Loss. He co-chairs the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health's Finance and Economics Working Group.