The Lancet

Melbourne Children's Global Health has led a number of The Lancet Commissions which bring together experts on child and adolescent health to conduct research, analysis and develop evidence-based recommendations for policy makers to improve health outcomes. 

The second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing - May 2025

The second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing focuses on required actions to transform adolescent health and wellbeing. It provides an evidence-based guide to act now and in the post SDG era. Building on the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, this Commission proposes an expanded conceptual framework for actions, defines an expanded set of indicators to ensure accountable action, and presents substantial original research that supports a wide range of specific cross-sectoral actions at global, regional, country, and local level. It ultimately aims to catalyse progress in adolescent health and wellbeing in today’s rapidly changing world.

Editorial available here: A wake-up call: the second Commission on adolescent health

Reducing global inequities in medical oxygen access: the Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security - March 2025

Oxygen therapy is lifesaving for people with acute illness, life-sustaining for people undergoing anaesthesia and surgical care, and life-enhancing for people with chronic respiratory failure. The COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on the long-standing inequities in access to medical oxygen globally. This Commission situates medical oxygen as a multifaceted system, a vital service, and an essential medicine, and presents new estimates of global medical oxygen need, the coverage gap, and the cost of closing it. Going further, it sets out strategies for building resilient medical oxygen production, storage, distribution, and delivery systems, and introduces a new national policy scorecard and oxygen coverage indicators. Centering oxygen investments around national plans and health-systems strengthening will ensure that oxygen is integrated into all health services, benefiting all patients, everywhere.

 

Editorial available here: Reducing global inequities in medical oxygen access: the Lancet Global Health Commission on medical oxygen security