Global Health Catalyst Summit

Catalyzing win-win collaborations for global health and development

With funding support from the USA National Institutes of Health

Events

Since 2015, Global Health Catalyst Summits have been held at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, University of Heidelberg, other world leading institutions, and in meetings with different country Presidents, First Ladies, Ministers, industry CEOs, and other stakeholders all focused on catalyzing high impact win-win collaborations for global health and development. Learn more below and Register for our upcoming slate of events where anyone interested in collaborating for global health and development is welcome.

Upcoming Events

Celebrating 2 USA Presidents, exceptional leaders in global health and 10 years of GHC global health impact

Join us on June 7, 2025 for an historic Hybrid event online and in person at Harvard/MIT to

Celebrate the leadership of two U.S. Presidents: President George W Bush for the impact of PEPFAR; President Joe Biden for the Global Cancer Moonshot,
Celebrate Exceptional leaders in global health, and
Celebrate 10 years of groundbreaking progress by the GHC in global health, and oncology.
Launch the World's Premier Comprehensive Cancer/Care Center in the Cloud (C4) powered by AI in collaborations to increase access to millions across the world
Advance progress towards the establishment of a Global Cancer Fund working with the private sector and innovative financing approaches.

Global Health Catalyst Summits at Harvard/MIT

Join us September 19-21, 2025 at Harvard/MIT to learn, network, collaborate with launch of major large funding collaborative programs with focus on ending the chronic disease epidemic consistent with Make America Healthy Again and the 2025 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on September 25th, 2025 which will review progress and commit to accelerated action on Non-Communicable Diseases.

Sing Global Health

The Sing for Global Health (SingGlobalHealth) Competition is a GHC Outreach/Advocacy initiative designed to harness the power of music to raise awareness, inspire action, and promote global/whole-person health including mental health. This competition invites young people worldwide to use their voices to advocate for better health for all—and optionally, to express gratitude to global health heroes.

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The GHC Debates

Coming soon.

Submit an Abstract

Become a Speaker: Present your global health work, or ideas for collaboration at the September 19-21 GHC summit at Harvard/MIT. Submission is open till May 15, 2025.

In Celebration of 10 year's of the GHC summits, those interested in highlighting the impact of their work or collaborations that have emerged from previous GHC summits are encouraged to also submit an abstract below. Anyone interested in speaking at the GHC summit is also encouraged to submit an abstract about your work, ideas or collaborations. All submissions will be considered for awards to be presented during the Harvard/MIT summit.

Submit an abstract

Harvard/MIT pre-summit webinar series

Register for the Webinars Here

Join us for the 2025 GHC Pre-summit webinar series in preparation for the summit at Harvard/MIT. The Pre-summit webinar series will be bi-weekly beginning February 1, 2025 for world cancer day.. The next webinars include: the following

Outstanding Speakers

key speaker for April 12, 2025

Dr Beatrice A Wiafe

CEO, Peace and Love Hospitals, Ghana

President of Breast Care International

Key Speaker for April 12, 2025

Moin Chowdhury

Managing Director, Grameen Kalyan

Bangladesh

Key Speaker for April 12, 2025

Dr Afua A. Yorke

Faculty and Global Health Technology Leader, University of Washington, USA

key speaker for March 29, 2025

Dr Raffaella casolino

Technical Officer, World Health Organization

Geneva, Switzerland

Key Speaker for March 29 2025

Dr Solomon Rotimi

Professor, Covenant University, Nigeria

Co-Founder,Dysplasia Diagnostics Ltd

Key Speaker for March 29, 2025

Dr Fleury Augustin Nsole Biteghe

Lecturer, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Northeastern University

key speaker for March 15, 2025

Mauro Carrara

Section Head, International Atomic Energy Agency. Vienna, Austria

Key Speaker for March 15 2025

Dr Claire Dempsey

Associate Professor, University of new Castle, Australia

Key Speaker for March 15, 2025

Dr Andrew Maidment

Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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key speaker for March 1, 2025

Dr Tracy Balboni

Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

Key Speaker for March 1 2025

Dr Art Pressley

Associate Professor, Drew University, New Jersey, USA

Key Speaker for March 1, 2025

Rebkha Atnafou

Faculty at Johns Hopkins and CEO of RnD Associates, USA

key speaker for February 15, 2025

Gustavo Olivera

CEO C-level Advice, Executive

Key Speaker for February 15, 2025

Dr Laurence Court

Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Texas, USA

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Key Speaker for February 15, 2025

Kingsley Ndoh

Founder and CEO of Hurone AI

key speaker for February 1, 2025

Dr Hedvig Hricak

Prof Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Key Speaker for February 1, 2025

Dr Catharine Young

Former Assistant Director,, White House CancerMoonshot Policy and International Engagement

Key Speaker for February 1, 2025

Dr Beatrice W Addai

C.E.O. of Peace and Love Hospitals, President and Founder, BreastCare International

Lancet Oncology Commission Launch in Ghana

Lancet Oncology Commission for sub-Saharan Africa Launch in Ghana

May 10, 2022: 10:00 am in Accra Ghana

His Excellency John Kufour

Former President of Ghana

HE Rebecca Akufo-Addo

First Lady of Ghana

OgyeahohooYaw Gyebi II

President of NationalHouse of Chiefs, Ghana

Dr Kwaku Agyeman Manu

Honorable Minister of Health, Ghana

Prof David Collingridge

Editor-in-Chief of The LancetOncology; Publishing DirectorThe Lancet’s specialty journals

Prof Isaac Adewole

University of Ibadan
Former Minister of Health, Nigeria

Dr Beatrice Addai

C.E.O., Peace and Love Hospitals,
President and Founder, Breast Care International. Co-Chair of Lancet Oncology Commission for SSA

Prof David Kerr

Professor of Cancer Medicine, University of Oxford; Co-chair of the Lancet Oncology Commission

Professor Wil Ngwa

Director, Global Health Catalyst
Chair, of the Lancet Oncology Commission for sub-Saharan Africa

Professor Stephen Avery

University of Pennsylvania
Global Health Catalyst summit PI

Prof Rose Anorlu

President of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer

Profesor Timothy Rebbeck

Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention, Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health

Join the launch live online

Please join us on May 10, 2022 via live stream available at:

https://fb.me/e/1NKEN4Myw

Urgent Calls to Action

Action 1: precision cancer control planning

Action 2: improving data acquisition and cancer registration

Action 3: designing health-care systems that promote equity of access

Action 4: increasing cure and improving care

Action 5: effective palliation

Action 6: building and maintaining the workforce

Action 7: innovation and research

Action 8: invest in telehealth

Click here for past summits

Learn more about outcomes from past year summits