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 medical anthropologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), where he founded the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity and serves as its Executive Director. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he also directs the Program in Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Social Change. He is Senior Health and Policy Advisor on NCDs to Partners In Health, Director of the BWH Advanced Clinical Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease and Global Health Equity, and Director of the BWH Research Fellowship in Type 1 Diabetes and Global Health Equity. 

For nearly 20 years, Dr. Bukhman has argued that for those living in extreme poverty, NCDs are best understood as part of the “long tail” of global health equity, one that demands a new science of integration. He has translated this critique into practical delivery strategies—such as the Package of Essential NCD Interventions – Plus (PEN-Plus)—that are now impacting patients’ lives in more than a dozen countries.

Dr. Bukhman was the lead author and a co-chair of the 1996–2020 Lancet Commission on Reframing NCDs and Injuries for the Poorest Billion. He now co-chairs the 23-country NCDI Poverty Network, launched in December 2020 to support implementation of the Lancet Commission’s recommendations.

Dr. Bukhman completed his medical training and doctorate in medical anthropology at the University of Arizona, an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a cardiology fellowship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters that apply a range of methodologies from ethnography and archival research to epidemiology and mathematical modeling to identify solutions to the problem of “NCDI Poverty.”