Global Health Catalyst Summits Awards
Celebrating distinguished leaders and high impact ideas/initiatives that are advancing global health and economic development

Awards winners
Distinguished leaders/people making both local and global health impact
Some previous distinguished Global Health Catalyst Award Winners
SInce 2015

Ed Benz
President of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute @ Harvard Medical School

Karen Bass
Chair of the USA Government House sub-committee for Global Health

Felica Knaul
Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative

H.E. Jeannette Kagame
First Lady of Rwanda

Funmi Olapade
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago

Twalib Ngoma
Professor and Founding Director of the Ocean Road Cancer Institute

Harold Varmus
Nobel Laureate, Former Director of NIH and NCI

Kwanele Asante
Lawyer, Chairperson, Ministerial Advisory Committee on Cancer Prevention and Control, South Africa

David Kerr
Professor of Cancer Medicine, Oxford University

Ahmed Elzawawy
Professor and President of ICEDOC Experts, Chair of the win-win initiative

Eduardo Cazap
Founder and first President of the Latin American & Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM). Former President of UICC

Dikembe Mutombo
NBA Hall of Famer. Founder and President of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation

Sulma Mohammed
Professor Purdue University

Rose Anorlu
President of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer

Anthony Zietman
Editor-in-chief Red Jorunal, Professor Harvard Medical School

Dow Wilson
CEO Varian Medical Systems

Beatrice Addai
President of Breast Cancer International

H.E Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu
Philanthropist, and the First lady of Ondo State in Nigeria

H.E Dorothy Nyong'o
Kisumu County First Lady, Kenya

Nicholas Abinya
Professor, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Calvin Johnson
NFL Hall of Famer

Prof Rose Anorlu

Prof Otis Brawley
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins

Barbara Goodman
President of Cures Within Reach
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