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 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. Cesaltina Lorenzoni
Prof Otis Brawley
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins
Barbara Goodman
President of Cures Within Reach
Prof Hedvig Hricak
Carroll and Milton Petrie Endowed Chair of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Prof David Collingridge
Editor-in-Chief of the Lancet Oncology, Vice President, Editorial Strategy & Innovation, The Lancet Group
Prof Orem Jackson
Director of the Uganda Cancer Institute
Dr Laurent Leksell
Chairman of the board of directors of Elekta
Dr Kamal Uddin
Associate Professor, National Institute of ENT, Bangladesh. Leader @ Oncology Club of Bangladesh
Prof James Metz
Chair of Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania
Impact
Congratulations and thanks to the outstanding award-winners who are renowned leaders contributing to high impact achievements in global health and oncology
Join us for the HOPE+ Summit
@ Harvard/MIT & Online
September 19–21, 2025
Global Health at the very best level with world leaders, faculty, students, leaders from industry, health care institutions, faith/community-based organizations, professional societies, government leaders, cancer advocates, athletes, survivors, artists, across disciplines all coming together to learn, network and collaborate for global health and development.
Co-organized/Hosted By:
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Harvard Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention
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Center for Global Health Equity at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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The Religion and Global Health Forum at Garrett
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University of Massachusetts Lowell Medical Physics Program.
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Johns Hopkins CaREER program
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