Global Health Catalyst Summit
Catalyzing win-win collaborations for global health and development
With funding support from the USA National Institutes of Health
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Our Story: Global Health is Local Health
Its all about win-win Collaborations
Global Health Catalyst (GHC) summits are premier events dedicated to catalyzing high impact international collaborations and initiatives to eliminate health disparities in the USA and globally. The main focus of the summits is to catalyze collaborations to address the rising scourge of non-communicable diseases like cancer, mental health, pain and cardiovascular diseases which are severely impacting global health and economic development.
Since 2015, the yearly summits have led to numerous win-win collaborations including the launch of major collaboration initiatives like: the comprehensive cancer center in the cloud (C4) powered by artificial intelligence, Global Oncology University, and the International Phytomedicines Institute collaboration initiatives.
The first summits were organized at Harvard, Europe and African Institutions. The success of the GHC summits have resulted in funding support to grow organization of the summits at different top USA institutions and partners in low-and-middle-income countries to catalyze win-win collaborations benefiting both high income and low income countries. Given the global participation and collaborations involved with the GHC summits, the content expressed on this website does not reflect the views of any institution or those providing funding such as the National Cancer Institute. Join us at one of the upcoming summits for win-win collaborations for global health and development
Some Events to RSVP for
Thu, Apr 25HoustonApr 25, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT – Apr 27, 2024, 4:00 PM EDTHouston, Houston, TX, USA
Sat, Sep 16Radisson Blu Water GardenSep 16, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM GMT+6Radisson Blu Water Garden, Dhaka 1206, Bangladesh
Thu, May 04Irvine AuditoriumMay 04, 8:00 AM EDT – May 06, 5:00 PM EDTIrvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, 19104, USA
News
Cancer Moonshot Announces New Actions Aimed to Reduce the Cancer Burden in Africa as Part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
December 14, 2022
As part of President Joe Biden's  U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the First Lady Dr Jill Biden convened a conversation with the spouses of African leaders on “Breaking Down Barriers to Cancer Care for Young Women and Girls. The event highlighted bold deliverables and new announcements from U.S. departments and agencies and the private sector of over $300 million to drastically improve cancer outcomes in Africa
Lancet Oncology Commission report launched with First Lady of Ghana highlighting growing cancer emergency in Africa
May 10, 2022
In sub-Saharan Africa, urgent action is needed to curb a growing crisis in cancer incidence and mortality. Without rapid interventions, data estimates show a major increase in cancer mortality from 520 348 in 2020 to about 1 million deaths per year by 2030. The Global Health Catalyst is at the forefront of catalyzing launch events and collaborations to implement the recommendations that can curb the growing cancer crises and save millions of lives.
Example Outcomes
Transformative outcomes of the GHC summits and collaborations
Voices at the summits
Include: Government leaders, Global Health Leaders, Nobel Prize winners, Cancer Center Directors, world leading healthcare professionals, Celebrity health advocates, students, residents, cancer patients, artists, diaspora, religious leaders, industry leaders etc all focused on win-win collaborations
Some of our past years' speakers
Inspiring and educational talks with a focus on high impact collaborations
Dr Monica Bertagnoli
President of American Association for Clinical Oncology, Professor, Harvard Medical School
Dr Diane Gashumba
Honorable Minister of Health
Republic of Rwanda
Dr Brian Kavanagh
President of American Society for Radiation Oncology and Professor, University of Colorado
Congresswoman Karen Bass
Chair, USA House Sub-Committee for Global Health
Dr Laurie Glimcher
President of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dikembe Mutombo
NBA Legend and Basketball Hall of Famer
Bruce Curran
President of American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Dr Bernard Haufiku
Minister of Health and Social Services, Republic of Namibia,
Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Mired
President of the Union for International Cancer Control
Dr Peter Nyongo'
Governor and former Honorable Minister of Health, Kenya
Dr Kyu Rhee
Vice President and Chief Health Officer, IBM
Dr Harold Varmus
Nobel Laureate, Former Director of the USA National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute
Dr Cristina Stefan
President, African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer
Dr Rasha Kelej
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Merck Foundation
H.E. Hilda-Suka-Mafudze
African Union Ambassador, USA
Dow Wilson
President and CEO of Varian Medical Systems
Dr Harold Varmus
Nobel Laureate, Past Director of USA National Institutes of Health
Prof David Collingridge
Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Oncology
Dr Satish Gopal
Director of the NCI Center for Global Health
Prof Anthony Zietman
Editor-in-Chief of the Red Journal
Professor at Harvard Medical School
Honorable Audley Shaw
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Jamaica
Prof Karen Emmons
Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Prof Frederik Wenz
Department Chair, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany.
Prof Silvia Formenti
Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Weill Cornell, Associate Director of the Meyer Cancer Center
Prof William Nelson
Director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Prof Glen Gaulton
Vice Dean and Faculty Director, Center for Global Health, University of Pennsylvania
Prof Mary K. Gospodarowicz
Medical Director of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Past President of Union for International Cancer Control
Professor Charles Ayo
Vice Chancellor of Covenant University, Nigeria
Nelly Enwerem-Bromson
Director. Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy. United Nations' IAEA
Prof Jean-Marie Dangou
World Health Organization
Therese Lindé
Global Public Affairs Director of Elekta
Krishnan Suthanthiran
President of TeamBest Companies and Best Cure Foundation
Prof Otis Brawley
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
H.E. Liberata Mulamula
Ambassador of Tanzania to the USA
H.E. Carlos Dos Santos
Ambassador of Mozambique to USA
Dr John Nkengasong
Director of the The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and former Director of the Africa CDC
Congressman Brad Wenstrup
Doctor of podiatric medicine,
Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve
Bismack Biyombo
NBA Star
H.E. Jessica Lapenn
.S. Ambassador to the African Union and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Some Past Events
- Thu, May 04Irvine AuditoriumMay 04, 8:00 AM EDT – May 06, 5:00 PM EDTIrvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, 19104, USA
Mon, Dec 12WashingtonDec 12, 2022, 10:00 AMWashington, 1232 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Mon, Nov 21ZoomNov 21, 2022, 9:00 AM ESTZoom
Wed, Sep 28AbujaSep 28, 2022, 9:00 AMAbuja, 1 Aguiyi Ironsi St, Maitama 900001, Abuja, Nigeria
Mon, Sep 26Dar es SalaamSep 26, 2022, 8:00 AMDar es Salaam, 24 Kivukoni Rd, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Fri, Sep 16StockholmSep 16, 2022, 2:00 PM GMT+2Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden
Thu, Jul 07Hybrid (Johns Hopkins and Online)Jul 07, 2022, 8:00 AM – Jul 09, 2022, 5:00 PMHybrid (Johns Hopkins and Online)
Tue, May 10AccraMay 10, 2022, 7:00 PMAccra, Accra, Ghana
Tue, May 10Hybrid (Accra Ghana, and Online)May 10, 2022, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM GMTHybrid (Accra Ghana, and Online)
Thu, Nov 11WebinarNov 11, 2021, 8:00 AMWebinar