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Global HEALTH
CATALYST SUMMIT
Catalyzing high impact international Collaborations to eliminate global health disparities
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 and related diseases.
The GHC is seed-funded by the Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.
Activities: Catalyzing collaborations, powerful talks, international panels, Networking, Poster sessions, exhibits, Awards, Workshops, Knowledge sharing.
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 African word UBUNTU. This approach focuses on building collaborations, leveraging ICTs/lower cost technologies, and unprecedented diaspora engagement to catalyze high impact international collaborations to eliminate global health disparities, save lives, advance development.
Outcomes: New international and cross-disciplinary collaborations to eliminate cancer, global radiation oncology online courses, co-mentored diaspora-funded research microgrants, telemedicine and virtual medical missions, awards, unprecedented partnerships with sports, religion, industry, diaspora, to address global health disparities, ICT-powered research and education programs, knowledge sharing, publications, including yearly summit proceedings, catalyzing establishment/support for cancer centers in Africa, networking with global health stakeholders from across the world, etc
SPEAKERS
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Inspiring talks and panels
Some of our past year speakers/participants

Dr Diane Gashumba
Honorable Minister of Health, Republic of Rwanda

Dr Laurie Glimcher
President of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Richard and Susan Smith Professor at Harvard Medical School

Dikembe Mutombo
NBA Legend and Basketball Hall of Famer

Dr Brian Kavanagh
President of American Society for Radiation Oncology

Dr Monica M. Bertagnolli
President of American Association for Clinical Oncology, Professor, Harvard Medical School

Dr Bernard Haufiku
Honorable Minister of Health, Republic of Namibia

Dr Karen Emmons,
Dean for Academic Affairs Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health

Dr Arikana Chihombori
African Union Ambassador to the USA
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