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
The Global Health Catalyst (GHC) summit is a premier yearly event dedicated to catalyzing high impact international collaborations and initiatives to eliminate disparities in the USA and globally. The main focus of the summit is on 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 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
RSVP for upcoming summits below
- Thu, Jul 07Hybrid (Johns Hopkins and Online)
- Tue, May 10Hybrid (Accra Ghana, and Online)

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 Julius Garvey
Surgeon, and son of legendary figure Marcus Garvey
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 Bernard Haufiku
Minister of Health and Social Services of Namibia
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 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