Speakers
Outstanding speakers at all levels all interested in collaborations.
Theme: Cancer Moonshot 2.0
Win-win Collaborations for global health and development
When USA President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden reignited the Cancer Moonshot (highlighted by the Lancet as Cancer Moonshot 2.0), they set ambitious, achievable goals: to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years, and improve the experience of people and families living with and surviving cancer, ultimately ending cancer as we know it today. They called for everyone to do their part including federal agencies and departments, private companies, health care providers, patient groups, philanthropies, and more. While the immediate goals are domestic, the ambitions of the Cancer Moonshot extend far beyond the borders of the United States, especially as the burden of cancer falls heavily to lower- and middle-income countries, where 80% of global cancer deaths occur. International work as part of the Cancer Moonshot is focused on equity and collaboration, thereby increasing access to prevention, screening, treatment, and care for everyone facing a cancer diagnosis and their families around the world.
In December 2022, the Cancer Moonshot announced New Actions Aimed to Reduce the Cancer Burden in Africa as Part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Day 1 of the GHC summit will focus on building momentum from the USA-Africa Leaders summit. Outcomes will include new commitments from African First Ladies, Ambassadors industry, Diaspora, non-profit organizations and other stakeholders for win-win USA-Africa collaborations for global health and development.
Day 2 will focus on collaborations with other world regions building on ongoing high impact initiatives by the Global Health Catalyst (Global Oncology University, and International Phytomedicines Institute) ending with awards dinner. Day 3 will focus on "Global Health is Local Health" involving addressing disparities in USA and empowering Young Global health Catalysts. Invited speakers include: presidents, First Ladies, Ambassadors, Industry/business Leaders, hundreds of diaspora and community based organizations, religious organizations, students, residents, athletes, advocates and other stakeholders all focused on win-win collaborations. All are welcome to RSVP here.
2024 GHC Summit Chairs/Speakers
Tentative; regularly updated
Prof Elizabeth Jaffee
Chair of the USA President's Cancer Moonshot Panel; Deputy Director, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Prof David Collingridge
Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Oncology Publishing Director for The Lancet’s specialty journals
Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Her Excellency, Robie Kakonge,
Ambassador of the Republic of Uganda to the United States
Dr Satish Gopal
Director, National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health
Her Excellency Dr Elsie Kanza
Ambassador of Tanzania to the USA
Dr Catharine Young
Assistant Director Engagement and Policy | Cancer Moonshot, Whitehouse
Prof Akila Viswanathan
Director, Department of Radiation Oncology, Johns Hopkins
Prof David Kerr
Professor of Cancer Medicine, Oxford University
Dr. Raffaella Casolino
World Health Organization, Switzerland
Prof Ahmed Elzawawy
Prof. Clinical Oncology, Suez Canal University
Chair GHC win-win initiative
H.E Ambassador Seleshi Bekele Awulachew
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of FDR Ethiopia to the USA.
Mark Lodge
Chair, UK and Ireland Global Cancer Network
Dr Miriam Mutebi
President of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC)
Sophie Bussmann-Kemdjo
C/Can · City Cancer Challenge, Director of Africa and Europe
Prof Kathleen Schemeler
Associate Vice President of Global Oncology. MD Anderson Cancer Center
Prof Cesaltina Ferreira
Head of the National Cancer Control Program at the Mozambican Ministry of Health
Prof M. Saiful Huq
Director of Medical Physics
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Prof Stephen Avery
Director and PI of Global Health Catalyst Summits, University of Pennsylvania
Dr Susannah Stanway
Co-convenor London Global Cancer Week
Dr. Mrs. Beatrice Wiafe Addai,
Consultant Breast Surgeon,
C.E.O., Peace and Love Hospitals, Ghana
Prof Richard Sullivan
Director of the King’s Institute of Cancer Policy and co-Director of the Conflict and Health Research Group
Melvin Foote
President Constituency for Africa
Prof Saraswati Sukumar
Barbara B. Rubenstein Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr Kenneth Ngwa
Professor at Drew University, Director, Religion and Global Health Forum
Jochen Kirsch
Director, Mission 21, Switzerland
Jennifer Dent
President of BIO Ventures for Global Health
Her Excellency Dorothy Nyongo'
First Lady of Kisumu, Kenya
Prof Twalib Ngoma
Professor and Research Chair, MUHAS Tanzania,
Prof Hedvig (Hedi) Hricak
Chair of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Department of Radiology
Celina Leão
Governor, Ibaneis Rocha, Brasilia, Brazil
Dr Paul Chilwesa
Global Access Leader, Roche
Prof Pat Price
Professor Imperial College London, Co-Founder Global Coalition for Radiotherapy
Professor Sandra Carillo
Professor, University of Panama
Cupid Chan
Chief Executive OfficerChief Executive Officer
Pistevo Decision
Prof Groesbeck Parham
Senior Clinical Expert - Cervical Cancer Elimination InitiativeSenior Clinical Expert - Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative
World Health Organization
Therese Lindé
Global Director Public Affairs
Elekta AB
Professor Clayton Yates
John R. Lewis Endowed Professor of Pathology, Oncology, and Urology
Dr Christian Ntizimira
Executive DirectorAfrican Center for Research on End-of-Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda
Prof Nazik Hammad
Professor St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
George Ntim
Chair of BCI America
Dr Zachary Ward
Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Prof Arthur Pressley
Professor, Drew University
Dr Lawrencia Dsane Bawuah
Consultant gyne-oncologist. Breast Care International and Peace and Love Hospital
Surbhi Grover, MD MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology | Director of Global Radiation Oncology | Oncology Lead Botswana-UPenn Partnership | University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Benjamin Walker
: Anglican Health and Community Network, UK
Dr Evelyn Parker
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Garrett
Prof Yaser Rayyan
Dean | Professor | University of Jordan,
Dr David Pate
David J. Pate, Jr., Ph.D.
Visiting Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Human Ecology
Dr Salameh Obeidat
Assistant Professor OHSU. Global Health Catalyst Jordan
Ming Yang, PhD
Associate Editor, Nature Medicine
Her Excellency Dr. Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu
Consultant Paediatrician, Advocate for women’s health & First Lady of Kebbi State, Nigeria
Martina Möllers
CEO Martina Connecting Africa; Board of Rotary Action Group of sexual Reproductive Health;
Vivian Birchall
Government, Community, Connections and Communication
Lacy Hubbard, MBA
President of Elekta Foundation
Bethlehem Floreza, RTT, CMD
Clinical Dosimetry Supervisor at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Suzana Manxhuka-Kerliu, MD, PhD
Professor and President Elect of Mediterranean Task Force for Cancer Control-MTCC
Prof Bashkim Ziberi
Professor at University of Tetovo, Macedonia
Prof Victor Mbarika
Professor, Stallings Distinguished International Scholar. President, Board of Trustees, The ICT University
* Inspiring Key speaker
Mihaela Tinca Udristioiu
Senior Lecturer, The University of Craiova, Romania
Dr Henry Lowe
Jamaican scientist, philanthropist and businessperson
Mehdi Sims
President, Kambaii Health
Eric Broyles
Founder and CEO, NanoCan Therapeutics Corporation
Rebkha Atnafou
President and CEO, RnD Associates.
Research Associate, Johns Hopkins
Dr. Laila Tutunji
Head of the Office of Medical Research, school of Medicine - The University of Jordan
Dr. Kais Balbissi
Director of Interventinal Cardiology. The University of Jordan
Monica Emiru Enyou
Executive Director, National Association of Women Organizations, Uganda
Prof Laurence Court
Professor of Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr Sayeda Yasmin-Karim
Faculty in Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School
Dr Kingsley Ndoh
Founder and CEO, Hurone AI
Prof Harry Quon
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Head and Neck Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinic, Johns Hopkins
Nusrat Aman
Chief Executive Officer at AYAT Education
Dr Gustavo Olivera
Governace Board MemberGovernace Board Member Fight Cancer Global
Dr Ngeh Toyang
CEO Flavocure Biotech
Dr Heng Li
Chief Proton Physicist, Associate Professor at Sibley Memorial Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medicines
Howard Eskin
Sports radio personality
SImon Manga
Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services
More Speakers coming soon
Invited speakers include Presidents, First ladies, Ambassadors, Oncology health professionals, leading journal editors, industry and diaspora leaders, young global health catalysts (e.g. students, residents), cancer advocates, NFL players, community based organization leaders, leaders from non-profit organizations, etc.
Ambassadors, USA government expert, and Chairs of Lancet Oncology Commission for sub-Saharan Africa meet the press during the 2022 Global Health Catalyst summit at Johns Hopkins
Some of our previous speakers
Regularly updated; subject to change
Prof David Collingridge
Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet Oncology; Publishing Director for The Lancet’s specialty journals
HE Rebecca Akufo-Addo
First Lady of Ghana
Dr Satish Gopal
Director of the USA National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health
Dr Catharine G. Young
Assistant Director Engagement and Policy | Cancer Moonshot
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Honorable Ummy Ally Mwalimu
Minister of Health Tanzania
Honorable Kwaku Agyeman Manu
Minister of Health, Ghana
Prof Jeff M. Michalski
President-elect of American Society for Radiation Oncology
Prof Rose Anorlu
President of African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer
Prof J. Daniel Bourland
President, American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Prof Akila Viswanathan
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Prof James Metz
President of American Radium Society, Chair Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania
Prof David Kerr
Professor of Cancer Medicine, University of Oxford; Co-chair of the Lancet Oncology Commission
Dr Beatrice Addai
C.E.O., Peace and Love Hospitals,
President and Founder, Breast Care International. Co-Chair of Lancet Oncology Commission for SSA
Dr May Abdel-Wahab,
Director of the Division of Human Health at the International Atomic Energy Agency
Profesor Timothy Rebbeck
Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention, Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health
Prof Twalib Ngoma
Senior Consultant Oncologist, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Prof Ahmed Elzawawy
Professor of Clinical Oncology, Chair of the GHC win-win initiative.
Jennifer Dent
President - BIO Ventures for Global Health
Professor, Eduardo Cazap
President of the Latin American & Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM); Editor-in-chief of eCancer
Lacy Hubbard
President, Elekta Foundation
Prof Otis Brawley
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Prof Saiful Huq
Prof of Radiation Oncology
and Clinical and Translational Science
Director, Division of Medical Physics
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Melvin Foote
President of Constituency for Africa, Washington DC
H E Dina Kawar
Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States of America
Chris Toth
CEO, Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company
H.E Mathilde Mukantabana
Ambassador of Rwanda to USA
Eric Broyles
Founder and CEO of NanoCan Therapeutics
Ambassador Jessica Lapenn
U.S. Ambassador to the African Union and the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Cordelia Baffic
Associate Director of Medical EducationAssociate Director of Medical Education
Penn Medicine; Immediate Past President, Association of Radiation Oncology Program Coordinators
Joel Osteen
Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University
Her Excellency Dr Brylyne Chitsunge
First Pan African Ambassador for Food Security, CEO Elpasso Farms, South Africa
Prof Thomas Bortfeld
Professor at Harvard Medical School, MGH
Calvin Johnson
NFL Hall of Famer
Zunaid Ahmed Palak
Honorable Minister of State for Information and Communication Technology Division, Bangladesh
Dr. Nowreen Haq
Vice President of Medical Management of Kambaii Health
Mehdi Shams
Co-Founder/President (CEO) of Kambaii Health
Dr. Lubna Hammoudeh
Radiation oncologist fellow,
Harvard Global Catalyst
Brigham and Women Hospital/ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Dr. Salameh Obeidat
Perioperative Anesthesia Fellow,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Martina Möllers
Senior Management Expert, Project Manager. Global Health
Prof Yaser Rayyan,
Dean of School of Medicine - The University of Jordan
Dr. Akhtar Mahmood
CRID’s Vice President for Research and Innovation
Laila Faruk Tutunji
Head of the Office of Medical Research
School of Medicine - The University of Jordan
Dr Christoph Trauernichtt
President of FAMPO
Rev Vanessa Wilson
Lead Pastor
The Church of the Good Shepherd, Willingboro, NJ
Sharon Williams
Religion and Global Health Forum
Dr Julie R. Gralow
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Carolyn C. Carpenter
President, National Capital Region, Johns Hopkins Health System
Dr Laurence Court
Associate Professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
H.E. Carlos dos Santos
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Mozambique to the United States of America
Dr Sulma Mohammed
Professor, Purdue University
Dr Richard Marlink
Professor and Director of Rutgers Global Health Institute
H.E. Hilda-Suka-Mafudze
African Union Ambassador, USA
Dr Glen Gaulton
Prof and Faculty Director, Center for Global Health, University of Pennsylvania
Dr Lindy Davidson
Associate Dean for Curriculum & Instruction at University of South Florida
Dr. Richard Wender
Executive Director of the Center for Public Health Initiative
Rebkha Atnafou
RA at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & Founder and CEO, RnD Associates and President,
Kevin Mahoney
Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Perelman School of Medicine
Dr Harry Quon
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Dr Sandra Carrillo
Professor, University of Panama
Cupid Chan
CEO, Pistevo Decision
Dr Ngeh Toyang
CEO Flavocure Biotech
Dr Pierre R. Theodore
Vice-President Global Public Health
Global Health Equity Leader
Johnson & Johnson
Some 2021 GHC Summit Speakers
Regularly updated
Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas
Professor, University of Miami
Prof Felicia Knaul
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
President of AORTIC
Prof Otis Brawley
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins
Barbara Goodman
President of Cures Within Reach
Some Past GHC Summits and Meetings
Thu, May 04Irvine AuditoriumMay 04, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT – May 06, 2023, 5:00 PM EDTIrvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce Street Philadelphia, 19104, USA
Mon, Dec 12WashingtonDec 12, 2022, 10:00 AMWashington, 1232 22nd St NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Mon, Nov 21ZoomNov 21, 2022, 9:00 AM ESTZoom
Wed, Sep 28AbujaSep 28, 2022, 9:00 AMAbuja, 1 Aguiyi Ironsi St, Maitama 900001, Abuja, Nigeria
Mon, Sep 26Dar es SalaamSep 26, 2022, 8:00 AMDar es Salaam, 24 Kivukoni Rd, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Fri, Sep 16StockholmSep 16, 2022, 2:00 PM GMT+2Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden
Thu, Jul 07Hybrid (Johns Hopkins and Online)Jul 07, 2022, 8:00 AM – Jul 09, 2022, 5:00 PMHybrid (Johns Hopkins and Online)
Tue, May 10AccraMay 10, 2022, 7:00 PMAccra, Accra, Ghana
Tue, May 10Hybrid (Accra Ghana, and Online)May 10, 2022, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM GMTHybrid (Accra Ghana, and Online)
Thu, Nov 11WebinarNov 11, 2021, 8:00 AMWebinar
Sun, Oct 14Georgia, USAOct 14, 2018, 8:00 AM – Oct 15, 2018, 6:00 PMGeorgia, USA
