Dr. Lan-Lan Smith (she/her) is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Haematology, launching the journal in 2014. She earned her PhD from Cancer Research UK/University College London, UK, in acute myeloid leukaemia genetics and held post-doctoral research posts in the Haemato-Oncology Section at the Institute of Cancer Research, UK, and in the Department of Haematology-Oncology at King's College London, London, UK, before joining The Lancet group as a Senior Editor at The Lancet Oncology in 2011. She is currently chair of the Sex and Gender Based Analysis workstream in the Elsevier Gender Taskforce, and former chair of The Lancet Gender and Diversity Taskforce.