CGH Spotlight Blog
This blog features content and images to showcase the great work from the Center for Global Health.
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Global Health Summer Reading ListRecommendations for great global health reads to add to your summer, (or anytime) reading list.
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Working Together to Advance Cancer Control and Reduce Stigma: Anal Cancer Prevention in the Nigerian SGM CommunityPride month reminds us to take the time to honor those in sexual gender minority (SGM) communities and their continued struggle to secure one of life’s most basic rights: the right to live free from stigma and discrimination. Although some progress has been made in securing these rights, SGMs continue to face unrelenting pressure to keep their true identities hidden from their families and communities in most of the world. This institutionalized discrimination contributes to poor health outcomes in all aspects of healthcare including cancer control.
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Tobacco Growing and the Environment: an Unfolding Global DisasterThis year’s World No Tobacco Day highlights the complex relationship between tobacco and the environment. Tobacco cultivation is a scourge for the environment, as well as public health, in many low- and middle-income countries, destroying fragile ecosystems and otherwise potentially productive land, and impoverishing millions of families.
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Dr. Ophira Ginsburg Joins NCI’s Center for Global Health as the New Senior Advisor for Clinical ResearchOn February 28, we welcomed Dr. Ophira Ginsburg as CGH’s new Senior Scientific Officer, Senior Advisor for Clinical Research. Hear from Ophira on International Women’s Day, about her start in global health, opportunities for NCI, and her passion for diving and ocean conservation.
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Toward a Diverse and Inclusive Global Cancer Research Workforce: London Global Cancer Week 2021NCI's Center for Global Health led a session at London Global Cancer Week 2021 focused on Cancer Research training. The discussion, moderated by CGH, included a panel of early-career investigators and global cancer research mentors who shared their experiences supporting and conducting LMIC-led cancer research.
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World Cancer Day 2022: Close the Care GapDr. Satish Gopal discusses World Cancer Day 2022 and NCI's role and responsibility in closing the care gap.
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Better Together: Developing New Collaborations for Cancer ResearchDr. Ned Sharpless highlights themes, barriers, and ambitious ideas discussed at the virtual joint UK-US scientific summit in November 2021. In addition, he shares the next steps for this exciting collaboration.
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NCI Center for Global Health Awards 6 Administrative Supplements in Global Survivorship ResearchTo stimulate research to understand barriers and address the needs of cancer survivors in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), the NCI issued a notice of special interest in global survivorship research in April 2021. Six administrative supplement awards were made to investigators proposing a range of research questions.
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U.S. and U.K. Convene Bilateral Scientific Cancer Summit
U.S. and U.K. will convene a scientific cancer summit on November 13-14, 2021. The Summit will bring together a small group of world-leading cancer researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, and industry representatives from both countries to begin the process of identifying transformative research challenges and ways to resolve barriers to progress in order to accelerate and fundamentally change our understanding of cancer, our approach to it, and ultimately the experience of people with cancer and their families.