Global Health Catalyst Summit

8:30: am Welcome

Professors Akila Viswanathan, Yuka Manabe

9:00 am:  Opportunities and models for collaborating to increase access to cancer care and reduce disparities

• Jeff M. Michalski (President-elect of American Association for Radiation Oncology)

• Saiful Huq (Chair Board of American Association of Physicists in  Medicine)

• Anil D'Cruz (President, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Geneva, Director of Oncology Apollo Hospitals, India)

• Jean-Marie Dangou (Director of Non-Communicable Diseases @ World Health Organization) on COVID-19 and Cancer

• Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Mired, Fierce Cancer Equity Advocate, Immediate-Past President of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) 

 Panel Q and A  with audience

11:00 am     Collaborating to reduce healthcare disparities: Policy Perspective

• Her Excellency, Hilda Suka-Mafudze, Ambassador of the African Union to the United States

• Rose Anorlu (President-elect, African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer) 

Q/A 

12:00 pm Global Radiation Oncology Journal Club with Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center by Rohini Bhatia

Special zoom link here

2:00 PM     Win-win  scientific Collaborations: Approaches and technologies for increasing access to cancer care and reducing disparities

2:00 PM: Key address: Global Health Catalyst (GHC) Win-Win Movement  by Professor Ahmed Elzawawy, Chair of the win-win initiative

- 2:20 PM: Comprehensive Cancer Center in the Cloud  (C4), (Ngwa et al.)

• Oncospace and AI-aided radiotherapy applications (by Todd McNutt @ Johns Hopkins)

• AI-aided radiotherapy applications (by Harry Quon @ Johns Hopkins)

- 2:50 PM Access4all initiative by Elekta: 

Therese Lindé (Global Public Affairs Director of Elekta)

-  3:05 PM African Access Initiative by Jennifer Dent (President of Bioventures for Global Health)

-  3:20 PM AfrOx-H2, Model of Win-win collaborations in multi-center clinical trials by  David Kerr  (Professor of Cancer Medicine at Oxford University, UK)

3:35 PM: Towards Radio-Immunotherapy Dose-painting Clinical Trials  (Charlotte Moser, NanoCan Therapeutics Corporation)

-  3:50 PM Cures Within Reach by Barbara Goodman (President of Cures Within Reach)

- 4:05 PM New win-win trends in Scientific publications and disseminations, focused on how to increase affordability of cancer care for undeserved patients. By:  Eduardo Cazap, (On behalf of  the leaders of the  Global Health Catalyst Win-Win Movement and Latin America and Caribbean Medical Oncology Society)

- 4:20 PM: Ways of advancing Surgical Oncology training and education in LMICS. By Riccardo Audisio (Past President of the European Society of Surgical Oncology)

-  4:35 PM RAVEN: Low-Cost technologies for global health  by John Wong (Professor and Director of Medical Physics @ Johns Hopkins)

- 4:50 PM: Win-win collaboration opportunities going forward: video on cancer and nutrition call to action. Announcement of new collaborations including collaboration with-Radiation Knowledge, and collaborative funding opportunities (Ahmed Elzawawy/Wil Ngwa) 

6:00 pm   Why we must collaborate, and and special award recognition

(Moderator,  Professor Akila Viswanathan, Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at Johns Hopkin)

• Welcome remarks by Prof Akila Viswanathan and introduction of key speakers

• Dr Satish Gopal, Director of the USA National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health

• Dr Felicia Knaul, Professor and Director of the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas.

• Play of summary video montage of thank you messages from around the world to Prof  Harold Varmus, Former NIH/NCI Director and Nobel Laureate

• Special  message to Dr Varmus  by William George Nelson V, M.D., Ph.D; Director of Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

• Response address by Prof Varmus

Responses from Audience

• Dr Christian Ntizimira, Director of Africa Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, Rwanda

• Rev Vanessa Wilson,  Cancer survivor and equity advocate, Founder of Sikhona Inc

• Kotrish Wright,  Cancer survivor and equity advocate 

• Julie Chessell, Cancer warrior mom

• Conclusion remarks