One of the world’s most impactful medical journals has established a team of academic professionals to address global disease and climate crises led by a UC San Diego professor.
The Lancet Commission will be chaired by Eliah Aronoff Spencer, professor of medicine and design at UCSD, and will provide recommendations on how to build resilient communities in the face of pandemics, climate change and other global challenges.
The group, titled “The Lancet Commission on U.S. Societal Resilience in a Global Pandemic Age: Lessons for the Present from the Future,” recruited professionals from fields in medicine, environmental science, economics, policy, media and technology and will operate for the next four years.
“Imagine standing by a raging river, seeing people swept away. We can keep pulling them out one by one, or we can go upstream to address what’s putting them at risk in the first place. That’s exactly what we aim to do,” said Richard Carpiano, commission co-chair.
Spencer said in a statement that the effort aims to ensure solutions are locally viable and community based.
“We need to refocus on strengthening our society by understanding what makes communities resilient — from transformational technologies like AI and synthetic biology to local governance and stewardship,” Aronoff-Spencer said.
The commission’s research will involve three phases: planning and community building, fact-finding and analysis and simulation and design.
During these processes the team will review national and global case studies in collaboration with the United Nations Science Summit and their associated commission Resilient Collective.
The team intends to produce a “future-oriented” report, along with policy recommendations for individual communities.
The Lancet has put together over 100 commissions since 2009 to address a variety of global issues. A full list of the commission members can be found at ucsd.edu.
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