The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on type 1 diabetes: looking back to move forward

Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General and Nobel Prize winner, was noted for his many words of wisdom, including: "One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations."1