The Changing Global Landscape of National Cancer Control Plans

Global Cancer Research and Control Seminar Series

April 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

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In this seminar, Dr. Yannick Romero and Ms. Zuzanna Tittenbrun from the Union for International Cancer Control will offer a summary of the International Cancer Control Partnership's 2023 global review of national cancer control plans, highlighting the methodology, major findings, and key trends in cancer prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivorship worldwide.

Yannick Romero, Ph.D., is the Senior Knowledge and Advocacy Manager within the Knowledge, Advocacy, and Policy team at the Union for International Cancer Control. Dr. Romero’s work primarily focuses on developing and gathering evidence-based information for global tobacco control. He also leads the Lung Cancer Collaboration Secretariat. Dr. Romero is dedicated to national cancer control planning, analyzing and evaluating countries' cancer plans in the frame of the International Cancer Control Partnership. Over the past decade, Dr. Romero has worked with diverse stakeholders throughout the fields of oncology, communicable diseases, and genetics. He earned his Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Geneva Medical School.

 

 

 

Zuzanna Tittenbrun, M.Sc., M.A., is a Global Resources Manager with the Knowledge, Advocacy, and Policy team at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Ms. Tittenbrun works in the area of cancer staging, managing UICC’s flagship Tumor, Node, Metastases (TNM) Project, which publishes the TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours. She also works in cancer control planning, managing a web portal for the International Cancer Control Partnership, which serves as a repository of publicly available national cancer control plans. Before joining UICC, Ms. Tittenbrun worked for the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Cluster Munitions Coalition of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, coordinating civil society’s presence in the humanitarian disarmament arena. She holds a Master of Arts in cultural studies and foreign languages and a Master of Science in global health policy from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.