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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, professional societies, 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.. In September 2024 the Quad Countries Launched a Cancer Moonshot Initiative to Reduce the Burden of Cancer in the Indo-Pacific The June 5-8 2025 Cancer Moonshot 2.0 GHC summit at Harvard/MIT will celebrate progress on the Cancer Moonshot and 10 years of GHC summits catalyzing high impact collaborations for global health and development.. Speakers will include Presidents, First Ladies and other government leaders, Professional Society Leaders, Leaders from Industry, Foundations, the Diaspora, students and trainees and other stakeholders from the USA and around the world. Register to come network, learn, collaborate and celebrate the amazing progress of the Cancer Moonshot and Global Health Collaborations. All are welcome to Register here.
2025 Cancer Moonshot 2.0 GHC Summit Speakers Coming soon.
From Presidents, to Nobel Laureates, to Leaders in Congress, to global cancer leaders to students, to everyday people, overyone is needed to collaborate in advancing global health and development.
Below are a sample of these people:
Some Past GHC Summit Chairs/Speakers
Join us to learn, network, and collaborate for global Health and development
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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
GHC 2023 summit
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 past 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