Charting a path to universal health care in India India has been one of the nations hardest-hit by COVID-19, but the pandemic’s painful health and economic consequences may be opening up an opportunity for change. A new commission jointly organized by The Lancet medical journal and Harvard’s Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute is studying how to bring universal health care to India within a decade. Launched February 8, 2021, the commission anticipates producing a report by August 2022. Vikram Patel, professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a professor at Harvard Medical School, is co-chairing the commission, and S.V. Subramanian, professor of population health and geography at Harvard Chan School, is a commission member.