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
Register to participate in the 2025 GHC Summit at Harvard MIT
Join us to speak, learn, network or collaborate as we celebrate 10 years of high impact collaborations catalyzed by the GHC summits with awards to outstanding ideas and collaborations advancing global health and economic development
Thu, Jun 05CambridgeJun 05, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT – Jun 08, 2025, 4:00 PM EDTCambridge, 48 Massachusetts Ave w16, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAEarly Bird registration ends February 28, 2025 No refunds for registration will be given for cancellations received after May 30, 2025.