Policy Innovations to Advance Equity in Solid Organ Transplantation

Despite advances in solid organ transplantation, significant global and within-country inequities persist, particularly affecting low-income regions and marginalised groups, prompting a call for policy solutions to ensure fair access and improved outcomes for all eligible patients.

Outline

• Understand how barriers to transplantation emerge at different steps across the patient journal from referral to evaluation through transplantation and follow-up care
• Describe global variation in access to transplantation, including differences in access to living donor versus deceased donor transplantation
• Describe global variation in access to high quality care after transplantation
• Describe how national policies can improve transplant equity, but must be tailored to the local context
• Identify knowledge gaps in how transplant equity might be achieved in the future

With
Camille N. Kotton, United States
Jennifer Li, Australia
Peter Reese, United States
Elmi Muller, South Africa
Lisa McElroy, United States