Lucy Gilson
Lucy Gilson is the joint 2024 Virchow Prize laureate. As a professor of health policy and systems, she holds a joint appointment between the University of Cape Town and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding health systems as complex, human systems, how to nurture their resilience and how to strengthen them to promote health equity. More specific interests include the trust and power dynamics of health systems, and health system leadership. Her research is multidisciplinary and often based on action-learning approaches.
