British Physician and academic
Rifat Atun
MBBS , MBA , DIC , FRCGP, FFPH, FRCP
Alma mater University of London, Imperial College London Known for Health systems theory, health systems reform, innovation and health systems Awards Web of Science, Clarivate, World’s Highly Cited Researcher (2020, 2021, 2022), Honorary Master of Arts, Harvard University (2014) Scientific career Fields Global Health Systems, Healthcare Innovation, Systems Theory Institutions Harvard University, Imperial College, University of London
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Rifat Atun is a
British
physician and academic who, as of January 2024, serves as the
Professor of Global Health Systems and
Director of the Health System Innovation Lab at
Harvard University .
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[3] He is one of the most important figures in the contemporary study of comparative
health systems and healthcare innovation and has made substantial contributions to health systems theory, health systems reform, and innovation in health systems.
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Atun served as the
Faculty Chair for the Harvard Ministerial
Leadership Program from 2015 to 2022.
[8] He was a member of the Executive Management Team of the
Global Fund from 2008 to 2012, where he held the position of Director of Strategy, Performance, and Evaluation.
[9] From 2006 to 2013, Atun was a Professor of International Health Management at
Imperial College London and Head of the Health Management Group.
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In addition to his academic work, Atun has advised governments on health system reforms, the
World Bank ,
WHO ,
[11] and leading health and life science companies. He served as a
senior advisor to the
G20
Presidency from 2019 to 2020 and co-chaired the T20 Health Track and the
Task Force on Global Health Security and
COVID-19 for the
G20 Indonesian Presidency.
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[13] He is a member of the Longitude Prize Committee
[14] and the founding Board Chair of Movement Health Foundation,
[15] a Swiss foundation that supports innovations aimed at solving major global health challenges through digital solutions. He is also the Founding President of the Global Surgery Foundation based in
Geneva .
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Research and publications
Atun's research focuses on health systems performance, design, and innovation. He has published more than 450 articles in leading journals, including
NEJM ,
Nature Medicine ,
Lancet ,
Lancet Oncology , JAMA , and
Academy of Management Journal . He has also led and participated in 15 Lancet Commissions.
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[31] In 2020, 2021, and 2022, he was recognized by
Web of Science as one of the World's Most Highly Cited Researchers.
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Atun studied medicine at the
University of London as a
Commonwealth Scholar and later completed his clinical training in
family medicine .
[33] He also obtained an
MBA from
Imperial College London .
[33] He is a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians , the Faculty of Public Health, and the
Royal College of General Practitioners in the UK.
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Rifat Atun has been awarded many prestigious awards for his excellence works in healthcare researches in the healthcare fields.
College Teaching Award
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Longitude Prize Committee
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"Rifat Atun: looking at the bigger picture" .
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"Rifat Atun" . scholar.google.com . Retrieved 2023-06-23 .
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"Rifat Atun | Harvard Catalyst Profiles | Harvard Catalyst" . connects.catalyst.harvard.edu . Retrieved 2023-06-23 .
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"Highly Cited Researchers" . Clarivate . Retrieved 2023-06-23 .
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"Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program" . Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Home – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria" . www.theglobalfund.org . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Home – Professor Rifat Atun" . www.imperial.ac.uk . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Rifat Atun - Editorial Board - Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation - Journal - Elsevier" . www.journals.elsevier.com . Retrieved 2024-01-27 .
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"Prof Rifat Atun" . G20 Health & Development Partnership . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Rifat Atun" . H20 Annual Summit . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Professor Rifat Atun" . Longitude Prize . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Rifat Atun" . The Movement 2030 . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Team" . The Global Surgery Foundation . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Rifat Atun" . scholar.google.com . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"The Lancet Commissions" .
^ World Health Organization Maximizing Positive Synergies Collaborative Group; Samb, Badara; Evans, Tim; Dybul, Mark; Atun, Rifat; Moatti, Jean-Paul; Nishtar, Sania; Wright, Anna; Celletti, Francesca; Hsu, Justine; Kim, Jim Yong; Brugha, Ruairi; Russell, Asia; Etienne, Carissa (2009-06-20).
"An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems" . Lancet . 373 (9681): 2137–2169.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60919-3 .
ISSN
1474-547X .
PMID
19541040 .
S2CID
21142312 .
^ Howitt, Peter; Darzi, Ara; Yang, Guang-Zhong; Ashrafian, Hutan; Atun, Rifat; Barlow, James; Blakemore, Alex; Bull, Anthony M. J.; Car, Josip; Conteh, Lesong; Cooke, Graham S.; Ford, Nathan; Gregson, Simon A. J.; Kerr, Karen; King, Dominic (2012-08-04).
"Technologies for global health" . Lancet . 380 (9840): 507–535.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61127-1 .
ISSN
1474-547X .
PMID
22857974 .
S2CID
15311210 .
^ Atun, Rifat; de Andrade, Luiz Odorico Monteiro; Almeida, Gisele; Cotlear, Daniel; Dmytraczenko, T.; Frenz, Patricia; Garcia, Patrícia; Gómez-Dantés, Octavio; Knaul, Felicia M.; Muntaner, Carles; de Paula, Juliana Braga; Rígoli, Felix; Serrate, Pastor Castell-Florit; Wagstaff, Adam (2015-03-28).
"Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America" . Lancet . 385 (9974): 1230–1247.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61646-9 .
hdl :
10986/23552 .
ISSN
1474-547X .
PMID
25458725 .
S2CID
1301239 .
^ Atun, Rifat; Jaffray, David A.; Barton, Michael B.; Bray, Freddie; Baumann, Michael; Vikram, Bhadrasain; Hanna, Timothy P.; Knaul, Felicia M.; Lievens, Yolande; Lui, Tracey Y. M.; Milosevic, Michael; O'Sullivan, Brian; Rodin, Danielle L.; Rosenblatt, Eduardo; Van Dyk, Jacob (September 2015).
"Expanding global access to radiotherapy" . The Lancet. Oncology . 16 (10): 1153–1186.
doi :
10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00222-3 .
ISSN
1474-5488 .
PMID
26419354 .
^ Langer, Ana; Meleis, Afaf; Knaul, Felicia M.; Atun, Rifat; Aran, Meltem; Arreola-Ornelas, Héctor; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Binagwaho, Agnes; Bonita, Ruth; Caglia, Jacquelyn M.; Claeson, Mariam; Davies, Justine; Donnay, France A.; Gausman, Jewel M.; Glickman, Caroline (2015-09-19).
"Women and Health: the key for sustainable development" . Lancet . 386 (9999): 1165–1210.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60497-4 .
ISSN
1474-547X .
PMID
26051370 .
S2CID
9416624 .
^ Atun, Rifat; Davies, Justine I.; Gale, Edwin A. M.; Bärnighausen, Till; Beran, David; Kengne, Andre Pascal; Levitt, Naomi S.; Mangugu, Florence W.; Nyirenda, Moffat J.; Ogle, Graham D.; Ramaiya, Kaushik; Sewankambo, Nelson K.; Sobngwi, Eugene; Tesfaye, Solomon; Yudkin, John S. (August 2017).
"Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: from clinical care to health policy" . The Lancet. Diabetes & Endocrinology . 5 (8): 622–667.
doi :
10.1016/S2213-8587(17)30181-X .
ISSN
2213-8595 .
PMID
28688818 .
S2CID
3766912 .
^ Cooke, Graham S.; Andrieux-Meyer, Isabelle; Applegate, Tanya L.; Atun, Rifat; Burry, Jessica R.; Cheinquer, Hugo; Dusheiko, Geoff; Feld, Jordan J.; Gore, Charles; Griswold, Max G.; Hamid, Saeed; Hellard, Margaret E.; Hou, JinLin; Howell, Jess; Jia, Jidong (February 2019).
"Accelerating the elimination of viral hepatitis: a Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission" . The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology . 4 (2): 135–184.
doi :
10.1016/S2468-1253(18)30270-X .
hdl :
10044/1/66792 .
ISSN
2468-1253 .
PMID
30647010 .
S2CID
58663099 .
^ Knaul, Felicia Marie; Farmer, Paul E.; Krakauer, Eric L.; De Lima, Liliana; Bhadelia, Afsan; Jiang Kwete, Xiaoxiao; Arreola-Ornelas, Héctor; Gómez-Dantés, Octavio; Rodriguez, Natalia M.; Alleyne, George A. O.; Connor, Stephen R.; Hunter, David J.; Lohman, Diederik; Radbruch, Lukas; Del Rocío Sáenz Madrigal, María (2018-04-07).
"Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief-an imperative of universal health coverage: the Lancet Commission report" . Lancet . 391 (10128): 1391–1454.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32513-8 .
ISSN
1474-547X .
PMID
29032993 .
S2CID
3866872 .
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"The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion" . The Lancet .
^ Atun, Rifat; Bhakta, Nickhill; Denburg, Avram; Frazier, A. Lindsay; Friedrich, Paola; Gupta, Sumit; Lam, Catherine G.; Ward, Zachary J.; Yeh, Jennifer M.; Allemani, Claudia; Coleman, Michel P.; Di Carlo, Veronica; Loucaides, Eva; Fitchett, Elizabeth; Girardi, Fabio (April 2020).
"Sustainable care for children with cancer: a Lancet Oncology Commission" . The Lancet. Oncology . 21 (4): e185–e224.
doi :
10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30022-X .
ISSN
1474-5488 .
PMID
32240612 .
S2CID
214767168 .
^ Hricak, Hedvig; Abdel-Wahab, May; Atun, Rifat; Lette, Miriam Mikhail; Paez, Diana; Brink, James A.; Donoso-Bach, Lluís; Frija, Guy; Hierath, Monika; Holmberg, Ola; Khong, Pek-Lan; Lewis, Jason S.; McGinty, Geraldine; Oyen, Wim J. G.; Shulman, Lawrence N. (April 2021).
"Medical imaging and nuclear medicine: a Lancet Oncology Commission" . The Lancet. Oncology . 22 (4): e136–e172.
doi :
10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30751-8 .
ISSN
1474-5488 .
PMC
8444235 .
PMID
33676609 .
^ Fleming, Kenneth A.; Horton, Susan; Wilson, Michael L.; Atun, Rifat; DeStigter, Kristen; Flanigan, John; Sayed, Shahin; Adam, Pierrick; Aguilar, Bertha; Andronikou, Savvas; Boehme, Catharina; Cherniak, William; Cheung, Annie Ny; Dahn, Bernice; Donoso-Bach, Lluis (2021-11-27).
"The Lancet Commission on diagnostics: transforming access to diagnostics" . Lancet . 398 (10315): 1997–2050.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00673-5 .
ISSN
1474-547X .
PMC
8494468 .
PMID
34626542 .
^ Farmer, Paul; Frenk, Julio; Knaul, Felicia M.; Shulman, Lawrence N.; Alleyne, George; Armstrong, Lance; Atun, Rifat; Blayney, Douglas; Chen, Lincoln; Feachem, Richard; Gospodarowicz, Mary; Gralow, Julie; Gupta, Sanjay; Langer, Ana; Lob-Levyt, Julian (2010-10-02).
"Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action" . Lancet . 376 (9747): 1186–1193.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61152-X .
ISSN
1474-547X .
PMID
20709386 .
S2CID
12742237 .
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"Highly Cited Researchers" . Clarivate . Retrieved 2023-06-19 .
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"Top teachers, times two | Imperial News | Imperial College London" . Imperial News . 2007-11-13. Retrieved 2024-01-27 .
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"Longitude Committee" . Longitude Prize on Dementia . Retrieved 2024-01-27 .
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