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WHAT is it all about:

The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) summit at Harvard, is a premier yearly event designed to catalyze high impact international collaborations to eliminate global health disparities, with main focus on cancer.

Our vision:

We have a dream that one day cancer will be eradicated,  and that people of all socio-economic, racial, religious, and cultural backgrounds will have access to quality healthcare.

Our Approach:

To realize this dream, we have adopted a transformative approach rooted in the values of creative agency and collaborative work embodied in the Swahili word HARAMBEE.  This approach focuses on building collaborations, leveraging ICTs/lower cost technologies, and unprecedented diaspora engagement to catalyze high impact international collaborations in cancer care, research and education that will save lives, eliminate cancer disparities, advance development. 

Top 7 Items of Interest:

  1. Deadline  for scientific and diaspora leader abstract submission is February 15 2017  Click here to learn more and submit an abstract

  2. First Global Radiation Oncology Certificate Course with live online class on April 30 2017 from Harvard Medical School

  3. The Harvard Global Health Catalyst win-win initiative 

  4. Catalyzing co-mentored research between African and Dana Farber/Harvard cancer researchers

  5. Outcomes of the 2016 summit including:  establishing new cancer centers in Africa, online learning, and mobilization of hundreds of Diaspora groups for turning brain drain to gain against cancer

  6. Award Winners

  7. New low-cost radiotherapy and immunotherapy technologies

Inspiring talks, productive international panel discussions, knowledge sharing, awards, networking, new/stronger partnerships to eliminate cancer:     
 (Tentative speaker list: Please check back soon for updates, registration, programming,:)
Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD

Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD

President-elect of ASCO (American Organization for Clinical Oncology), Professor, Harvard Medical School

Cristina Stefan, MD

Cristina Stefan, MD

President-elect, African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC)

Dr Diane Gashumba

Dr Diane Gashumba

Minister of Health, Rwanda

Arikana Chihombori MD

Arikana Chihombori MD

African Union Ambassador to the USA

Karen Emmmons, PhD

Karen Emmmons, PhD

Dean for Academic Affairs Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health

H.E. DAOUDA DIABATÉ

H.E. DAOUDA DIABATÉ

Ambassador of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire to the United States

Dr Rasha Kelej

Dr Rasha Kelej

Global Vice President, Merck

Dr Olusoji O. Adeyi

Dr Olusoji O. Adeyi

World Bank Director for Global Practice, Health, Nutrition & Population,

Raymond C. Dabney

Raymond C. Dabney

President & CEO CANNABIS SCIENCE

Silvia Formenti, MD

Silvia Formenti, MD

Professor and Chair Department of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Congresswoman Donna Christian-Christ

Congresswoman Donna Christian-Christ

Wafaie Fawzi, PhD

Wafaie Fawzi, PhD

Chair, Department of Global Health and Population. Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

David Kerr, MD

David Kerr, MD

Professor and Co-Founder AfrOx (Africa Oxford Cancer Foundation) and Professor of Cancer Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Bakari Kambi, MD

Bakari Kambi, MD

Tanzania Ministry of Health

Krishnan Suthanthiran

Krishnan Suthanthiran

Founder and President of TeamBest Companies, Best Cure Foundation

Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins

Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins

Leader in Global health and security

Daphne Haas-Kogan

Daphne Haas-Kogan

Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

AiD United

AiD United

Africans in Diaspora (AiD) united against cancer

Denise Grady

Denise Grady

The New York Times

Nicholas Anthony Othieno-Abinya, MD

Nicholas Anthony Othieno-Abinya, MD

Professor of Medicine, head of section of Haematology/Oncology, Department of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Nairobi and Kenyatta National Hospital

Srinivas Sridhar

Srinivas Sridhar

Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University and Director of the World's first Undergraduate program in Cancer Nanomedicine

Holger Wirtz

Holger Wirtz

Solar-powered Radiotherapy Pioneer Head of medical-physics Chief Technical Officer Of Lake Constance Radiotherapy Center Singen-Friedrichshafen, GERMANY

Julius Garvey MD

Julius Garvey MD

Surgeon, son of legendary figure, Marcus Garvey

Eduardo CAZAP

Eduardo CAZAP

President of the Latin American & Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology; Past-President Union for International Cancer Control

Twalib Ngoma, MD

Twalib Ngoma, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Oncology. MUHAS, Tanzania

Jeremy Slone

Jeremy Slone

Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine Associate Director for Education|TXCH Global Hematology-Oncology Programs

Vanessa Kerry

Vanessa Kerry

Co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health

Brian Kavanagh

Brian Kavanagh

President-elect of American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

Christian Ntizimira, MD

Christian Ntizimira, MD

Lancet Commission-Global Access for Pain Control and Palliative Care. Rwanda Palliative Care and Hospice organisation (RPCHO), Rwanda

Edward J. Benz Jr.

Edward J. Benz Jr.

President and CEO, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Harvard Medical School)

Dow Wilson

Dow Wilson

President and CEO, Varian Medical Systems

Bruce Curran

Bruce Curran

President Elect at American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Dr Zipporah Ali, MD, MPH,

Dr Zipporah Ali, MD, MPH,

Executive Director Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association

Felicia Knaul

Felicia Knaul

Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine Director, Miami Institute for the Americas

Ophira Ginsburg

Ophira Ginsburg

World Health Organization

Ahmed Elzawawy

Ahmed Elzawawy

President of ICEDOC & Immediate Past President of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC)

Melvin Foote

Melvin Foote

‎President- ‎Constituency for Africa

Jim Cleary MD, FAChPM

Jim Cleary MD, FAChPM

Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology and Palliative Medicine) University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Sponsors/partners

 

Regularly updated: To become a sponsor please contact us here

 

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