Tamara Lucas

From 2013 to 2023, Tamara Lucas was an Executive Editor at The Lancet, leading multidisciplinary Lancet Commissions and projects in global health - from conception to delivery and afterlife, with an emphasis on health and climate change. These projects include publications such as the annual report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, Food in the Anthropocence: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems, A Future for the world’s children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission, and The Lancet Nigeria Commission.  

She has extensive experience in bringing together multiple and sometimes disparate strands in science and social sciences, and delivering results and recommendations from inclusive and diverse thinkers towards recommendations that inform high level global policy. Her interests and expertise are centred on climate change and planetary health, and the subjects that contribute to an understanding of sustainable approaches towards these disciplines, but also include broader issues in health. Tamara Lucas trained as an anthropologist at University College London, followed by a Master’s degree at London’s Royal College of Art. After several years spent working as a curator of ethnography and Indigenous art in the UK and Australia, Tamara moved into academic publishing, and remains engaged in the intersection of arts, humanities, and science.