About Us
Catalyzing high impact win-win collaborations for global health and development
Our Vision
Global Health Catalyst summits are all about catalyzing win-win collaborations to eliminate health disparities and advance development in the USA and globally
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 health care.
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 word UBUNTU. Popularized worldwide by Nobel Prize winners Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, ubuntu signifies the idea that “I am because we are,” or human connectedness. This ethos rings particularly true in today’s hyperconnected world, where we all share in the bounty of the expanding internet, advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs) with artificial intelligence and where local health has become global health and vice versa. Activities to realize this dream can be classified into 4 areas: Education, Research, Care and Outreach with unique focus on leveraging:
advanced information and communication technologies and Artificial Intelligence
unprecedented diaspora engagement to turn brain drain to global health gain,
support for highly innovative high quality low cost approaches and technologies for eliminating global health disparities.
partnerships with governments, global health leaders, celebrity advocates, academia, healthcare industry and NGOs
Acknowledgements
Funding support
Funding Support Support from the National Cancer Institute
USA
Prof Wil Ngwa, Principal Investigator of NIH Funding support for the GHC summits
Founding Director of the Global Health Catalyst
Prof Stephen Avery,
Principal Investigator of NIH Funding support for the GHC summits
Director Global Health Catalyst Summit UPENN
Prof Saiful Huq,
Past President AAPM
Co-Director and Lead for USA-Asia collaborations
GHC summit leaders/chairs/advisers
Regularly updated
Prof Felicia Knaul
Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas
Professor, University of Miami
Prof Ahmed Elzawawy
Chair of the GHC win-win initiative
Prof David Kerr
Professor of Cancer Medicine, Oxford University, Chair AfrOx-H clinical trials network initiative
Prof Akila Viswanathan
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Prof Gary Strichartz
Professor at Harvard Medical School, Director of Pain Research Center, BWH
Eric Broyles
President and Founder of NanoCan Therapeutics Corporation
Professor Paul Nguyen
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Melvin Foote
Chair, government leaders and policy session
Prof Ric Marlink
Director of Rutgers Global Health Institute
Dr Brylyne Chitsunge
Pan-African Ambassador for food security
Profesor Twalib Ngoma
Vice Chancellor Global Oncology University
Prof Kenneth Ngwa
Chair of the Religion and Global Health forum
Professor Elizabeth Jaffee
The Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli Professor of Oncology,
Deputy Director, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Dr Christian Ntizimira
Director of Africa Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, Rwanda
Professor Bashkim Ziberi
University of Tetovo, Macedonia
Prof Sulma Mohammed
Purdue University
Professor Eduardo Cazap
Founder and President of the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM),
Dr Lydia Asana
Chair of the Young GHC catalysts
Professor Riccardo Audisio
President of the European Society of Surgical Oncology
Dr Tommy Shavers
Chair of Sports and Health/Integrative medicine session
Kwanele Asante
Chair advocacy session
Holger Wirtz
Chair GHC summits Germany
Vivian Birchall
Media and diaspora coordinator
Dr Rebecca Buecker
Diaspora Tumor boards coordinator
Join Us
The summits feature:
high impact collaboration sessions,
powerful talks,
international panels,
Networking,
Poster sessions,
exhibits,
Awards,
Workshops,
Knowledge sharing.
seed-funding opportunities for collaborations
Upcoming Events
Tue, Nov 12Location is Hybrid. Details coming soonNov 12, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMTLocation is Hybrid. Details coming soon
Thu, Dec 12DhakaDec 12, 2024, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PMDhaka, Airport Rd, Dhaka 1206, Bangladesh
Thu, Jun 05Harvard/MITJun 05, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT – Jun 08, 2025, 4:00 PM EDTHarvard/MIT, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USAJun 05, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT – Jun 08, 2025, 4:00 PM EDTHarvard/MIT, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, USARegister for 4 Days (June 5-8) of Celebrating progress on the Cancer Moonshot and 10 years of progress by the Global Health Catalyst. Early Bird registration ends February 28, 2025. No refunds for registration will be given for cancellations received after June 30, 2025.