Rifat Atun Explained

Rifat Atun
Honorific Suffix:,,, FRCGP, FFPH, FRCP
Fields:Global Health Systems, Healthcare Innovation, Systems Theory
Work Institutions:Harvard University, Imperial College, University of London
Website:Official website
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)

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.[1] [2] [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.[4] [5] [6] [7]

Career

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.[10]

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.[12] [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.[16]

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.[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] In 2020, 2021, and 2022, he was recognized by Web of Science as one of the World's Most Highly Cited Researchers.[32]

Education and honors

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. 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.[34]

Awards and memberships

Rifat Atun has been awarded many prestigious awards for his excellence works in healthcare researches in the healthcare fields.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Avenue . 677 Huntington . Boston . Ma 02115 . Rifat Atun's Faculty Website . 2023-06-19 . Rifat Atun's Faculty Website . en-us.
  2. News: Avenue . 677 Huntington . Boston . Ma 02115 . 2015-06-01 . Professor Rifat Atun . 2023-06-19 . Global Health Systems Cluster . en-us.
  3. Web site: Boston . 677 Huntington Avenue . Ma 02115 . 2022-02-08 . Professor Rifat Atun, MBBS, MBA, DIC, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPH . 2023-06-19 . Health Systems Innovation Lab . en-US.
  4. Web site: Rifat Atun: looking at the bigger picture .
  5. Web site: Rifat Atun . 2023-06-23 . scholar.google.com.
  6. Web site: Rifat Atun Harvard Catalyst Profiles Harvard Catalyst . 2023-06-23 . connects.catalyst.harvard.edu.
  7. Web site: Highly Cited Researchers . 2023-06-23 . Clarivate . en.
  8. Web site: Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program . 2023-06-19 . Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program . en-US.
  9. Web site: Home – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria . 2023-06-19 . www.theglobalfund.org . en.
  10. Web site: Home – Professor Rifat Atun . 2023-06-19 . www.imperial.ac.uk.
  11. Web site: Rifat Atun - Editorial Board - Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation - Journal - Elsevier . 2024-01-27 . www.journals.elsevier.com.
  12. Web site: Prof Rifat Atun . 2023-06-19 . G20 Health & Development Partnership . en-US.
  13. Web site: Rifat Atun . 2023-06-19 . H20 Annual Summit . en-US.
  14. Web site: Professor Rifat Atun . 2023-06-19 . Longitude Prize . en-US.
  15. Web site: Rifat Atun . 2023-06-19 . The Movement 2030 . en.
  16. Web site: Team . 2023-06-19 . The Global Surgery Foundation . en-US.
  17. Web site: Rifat Atun . 2023-06-19 . scholar.google.com.
  18. Web site: The Lancet Commissions .
  19. 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 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60919-3 . 1474-547X . 19541040. 21142312 .
  20. 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 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61127-1 . 1474-547X . 22857974. 15311210 .
  21. 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 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61646-9 . 1474-547X . 25458725. 10986/23552 . 1301239 . free .
  22. 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 . 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00222-3 . 1474-5488 . 26419354.
  23. 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 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60497-4 . 1474-547X . 26051370. 9416624 . free .
  24. 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 . 10.1016/S2213-8587(17)30181-X . 2213-8595 . 28688818. 3766912 .
  25. 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 . 10.1016/S2468-1253(18)30270-X . 2468-1253 . 30647010. 58663099 . 10044/1/66792 . free .
  26. 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 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32513-8 . 1474-547X . 29032993. 3866872 .
  27. The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion . The Lancet.
  28. 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 . 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30022-X . 1474-5488 . 32240612. 214767168 .
  29. 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 . 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30751-8 . 1474-5488 . 8444235 . 33676609.
  30. 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 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00673-5 . 1474-547X . 8494468 . 34626542.
  31. 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 . 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61152-X . 1474-547X . 20709386. 12742237 .
  32. Web site: Highly Cited Researchers . 2023-06-19 . Clarivate . en.
  33. Web site: Rifat Atun . 2024-03-17 . www.news.uct.ac.za . en.
  34. Web site: Boston . 677 Huntington Avenue . 2021-05-19 . Rifat Atun . 2024-01-27 . Executive and Continuing Professional Education . en-US.
  35. Web site: 2007-11-13 . Top teachers, times two Imperial News Imperial College London . 2024-01-27 . Imperial News . en.
  36. Web site: Longitude Committee . 2024-01-27 . Longitude Prize on Dementia . en-US.

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