Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD

Co-Chair, NCDI Poverty Network

Executive Director, Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD, is a cardiologist and cultural anthropologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Program in Global Noncommunicable Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Between 2010 and 2015, Dr. Bukhman was the senior technical advisor on noncommunicable diseases to the Rwanda Ministry of Health. Over the past 15 years, he has argued that for those living in extreme poverty, NCDs are best understood as part of the “long tail” of global health equity that demands a new “science of integration.” He has translated this critique into practical delivery strategies such PEN-Plus (the Package of Essential Noncommunicable Disease Interventions–Plus). These strategies are now impacting the lives of thousands of people living with severe childhood-onset conditions such as type 1 diabetes, sickle cell disease, and rheumatic and congenital heart disease in more than a dozen countries.

He is the author of more than 125 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters that apply a range of methodologies from ethnography and archival research to epidemiology and mathematical modelling to identify solutions to the problem of “NCDI Poverty.”

Dr. Bukhman was the lead author and co-chair of the 1996–2020 Lancet Commission on Reframing NCDs and Injuries for the Poorest Billion. He is currently Co-Chair of the 27-country NCDI Poverty Network, which launched in December 2020 to support implementation of the Lancet Commission’s recommendations.

In 2023, Dr. Bukhman received the World Heart Federation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Cardiovascular Health.