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July 2024: White House Africa Cancer Care Forum announcing over $100M in new actions

Catalyzing USA-Africa collaborations: Prof Wil Ngwa moderated  the live panel discussion  at the White House during the premier White House Africa Cancer Forum. The event convened over 12 African nations to assess national priorities in cancer care as part of their comprehensive national strategy for improving health care systems and population health outcomes. During the event, the Biden Cancer Moonshot announced over $100 million in new actions – from the Federal Government and private sector – to address the growing cancer crises in Africa. 

December 2024: GHC Summit Bangladesh with Bangladesh Head of Government  and Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus

Catalyzing SAARC country collaborations: His Excellency Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser (interim head of government) of Bangladesh  and Nobel Laureate inaugurated the  Lancet Oncology Series on Cancer Care in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries led by Prof Saiful Huq. The event was organized with the Oncology Club of Bangladesh, a GHC collaborating champion of cancer control in the SAARC region. Thie Lancet Oncology series provides a foundation for growing GHC-SAARC collaborations​

October 2024: Sod-Cutting Ceremony establishing the Otumfour Osei Tutu II Comprehensive Cancer Center of Excellence

Catalyzing the establishment of world-class Cancer Center in Ghana that will revolutionize cancer care, research and education in Africa. GHC working with Breast Care International launched the $100 million oncology center of excellence  project.. Led by Dr Beatrice Wiafe Addai, the 52-acre facility will be known as Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Comprehensive Cancer Center of Excellence (CCCoE), a tribute to the 16th King of Asante Kingdom.The CCCoE will also serve as a medical tourism hub for Africa powered by AI and other advanced information and communication technologies linking the center with partners at the world's leading institutions, to ensure access to world-class care.. The event followed the GHC summit Ghana led by Prof Stephen Avery of the University of Pennsylvania.

October 2024. The GHC leadership at the forefront in the White House for catalyzing the establishment of a Global Cancer Fund

GHC leaders have been working with the USA government to establish a Global Cancer Fund that can power win-win collaborations between the USA and other countries.  .The  Global Cancer Fund is envisioned to  harness collective efforts from governments, the private sector, non-profits and international organizations to address the cancer crises in the USA and globally. Some organizations involved include the World Bank, AACR, ASCO, ASTRO, Pfizer, Amazon Web Services, etc

GHC Summit at Johns Hopkins leads to new funding from NIH for the Cancer Research Education Excellence in Radiotherapy (CaREER) program 

The CaREER program at Johns Hopkins is an example of an outcome from the 2022 Global Health Catalyst summit at Johns Hopkins funded by the USA National Institutes of Health. The overall goal of the CaREER program is to train the next generation of scientists, technologists and physicians who will be empowered to pursue careers involving research in emerging and transformative areas of radiotherapy. These transformative areas of research have major potential to address  radiotherapy limitations in substantial ways, extend radiotherapy to curative treatment of both local and metastatic disease, and reduce disparities with innovations to reduce treatment time and cost, enhance patient convenience, and significantly increase survival and quality of life for cancer patients.

First Ladies Cancer Moonshot Event highlighting the power of collaborations

USA First Lady  Dr Jill Biden hosted African First ladies to collaborate on Reducing the Cancer Burden in Africa. The event highlighted  the power of collaborations with 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. The event followed outreach by the GHC in launching of the Lancet Oncology Commission for sub-Saharan Africa with African First ladies including  the First Lady of Rwanda Her Excellency Jeannette Kagame, and the First  Lady of Ghana Her Excellency Rebecca Akufo-Addo. 

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NFL Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson and  Rob Sims champion collaboration for education on global phytomedicine and medical cannabis

During the Global Health Catalyst summit at the University of Pennsylvania in 2023, Calvin Johnson and Rob Sims met with global health leaders and Ambassadors to launch a premier education program on phytomediciine and medical cannabis with The International  Phytomedicine and Medical Cannabis Institute (IPI). The IPI is a high impact collaborative initiative launched during the Global Health Catalyst summit at Harvard Medical School in 2019. This was powered by a touch-down donation from NFL Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson, major collaborations with industry and government leaders including the Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries of Jamaica the Honorable Audley Shaw

The Director of the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Dr Helene M. Langevin speaks at the GHC summit on Whole Person Health

At the GHC summit at Johns Hopkins, Dr Helen Langevin spoke during the Religion and Global Health Forum session on the importance of Whole Person Health. Whole person health focuses on integrating the physical, mental and spiritual healing. Instead of treating diseases one at a time, once they occur. it combines psychological, nutritional, and physical interventions and self-care to address the whole person proactively.  The GHC is now catalyzing collaborations with faith-based/community leaders via the C4 powered by technology/AI to dramatically increase access to Whole Person Health, especially at a time when the world is grappling with a surge in chronic conditions including mental health